My Daughter Never Belonged-One Voice Can Change Everything | Annette Hines | TEDxFullerton
TEDx Talksยท2025-10-27 16:40
[Music] The operating room is chaos. Alarms are sounding all around me. People are rushing around and I can hear urgent whispers. The one sound that I desperately need to hear and don't is the sound of my newborn daughter crying. Elizabeth was born at just 29 weeks weighing 2 lb. We would later learn that she had mitochondrial disease or mido for short, which is a degenerative condition with no cure. The maido and a preeie birth injury left her blind, intellectually disabled, a wheelchair user, non-verbal, ...