When Fear Steals Hope | Annette Hines | TEDxForbesPark
TEDx Talksยท2025-10-02 15:09
[Music] [Applause] The operating room is chaos. I've been rushed in for an emergency C-section. The monitors are loudly sounding off.People are rushing around everywhere. And I hear urgent whispers all around me. But in all that noise, there's one sound I desperately need to hear and don't.The cry of my newborn daughter. Elizabeth burst into the world at 29 weeks, weighing just 2 lb. We would later learn that she had mitochondrial disease or maido for short, which is a degenerative condition with no cure.No ...