[applause] I remember waking up lying in a dense forest, looking up at the sky through the tops of the trees, but having no recollection of how I'd gotten there. Within seconds, my brain was overflooded with pain signals, and then everything went dark. I came back in fragments being dragged out of the woods, paramedics cutting my clothes off in the ambulance, and then waking up in the ICU, having difficulty speaking.At 15, I nearly died in an accident that left me overcoming a speech impediment following tr ...