A brain tumor taught me the power of preparation | Evangeline Fabia | TEDxThird Ward

Please welcome Evangelene Fabia. I'm lying in the ICU when I hear a nurse call out my name. Evangeline, wake up.My arms ache from IV lines. My throat burns where a breathing tube had been. What felt like five minutes under anesthesia was actually six hours in the operating room.I try to open my eyes. Nothing. Then I hear my family's voices greeting me back to life.Instinctively, I clench my fists, wiggle my toes, and I think, "Thank God I'm alive. And in that moment, unsure of my future, I realized somethin ...