Hearing or Life(要听觉还是要生命)

1、.Woman's Choice: Hearing or Life?要听觉还是要生命？To save her life, Jessica Stone had to lose her hearing.为了活命，杰西卡·斯通不得不失去听觉。Now to the inspiring story of a young woman faced with a difficult diagnosis. The surgery she needed to save her life would cause her to lose her hearing forever. So how woul

2、d you spend your last days being able to hear the world? Jessica Stone did it with bravery and grace. 下面是一个年轻女子面对困难的诊断的鼓舞人心的故事。挽救她的生命的手术会导致她永远丧失听力。所以你将如何度过你能够听到世界的最后一天？杰西卡·斯通用勇气和风度做到了。Taste it, taste it, loves so sweet. And all of it was lost on me.品尝它，品味它，爱是如此甜蜜。所有的一切我都失去了。Imagine a symphony o

3、f sounds that make up your life, your favorite song, your family's laughter, your dog. Now imagine counting down the weeks, days, hours until every sound disappears. 想象一下，组成你生命的交响曲的声音，你最喜欢的歌，你的家人的笑声，你的狗。现在想象，倒数剩下的周、日、小时，直到每一种声音都消失了。Really, at a loss for emotion, freak out, actually. To be very b

4、lunt, freak out. 真的，在情感上的缺失，吓坏了，真的。老实说，吓坏了。Surgery has been a fact of life for 23-year-old Jessica Stone since she was a little girl. But it wasn't until she was 15 that doctors were able to put a name to her disease neurofibromatosis （多发性神经纤维瘤）, a rare genetic disorder that causes benign tumors

5、 to grow along her nervous system. 手术已经从小就成为了23岁的杰西卡·斯通的生活中严酷的现实。不过她不到15岁时，医生已能确诊她患了多发性神经纤维瘤，一种罕见的遗传性疾病，导致良性肿瘤沿着她的神经系统生长。The diagnosis was, you know, pretty much a kick in the gut. 这个诊断，你知道，几乎是致命的一击。Over the years Jessica has had more than 20 surgeries to remove the tumors. 多年来，杰西卡已经做了超过20个手术来清

6、除肿瘤。Since this whole thing started eight years ago, I wanna crawl up, a lot of days and cry and I can't because, I can't do it because she doesn't do it. 自从八年前这一切开始以来，很多天我想精神崩溃地大哭，但我不能，因为，我不能这样做是因为她没有这样做。Her humor has always found ways to make her through and she is just a beautiful pers

7、on inside and out. 她的幽默感总是让她找到度过难关的方法，她是一个秀外慧中的女生。She'd already lost the hearing in her left ear and then this went her devastating news, there is a tumor pressing against her brainstem that has to come out. And the operation that will heal her will also leave her deaf. 她已经失去了她的左耳听力，然后她又得知一个惊人的消

8、息，有个压迫脑干的肿瘤必须取出。而这个可以治愈她的手术将使她完全耳聋。You do a surgery that will leave you completely deaf or you take the risk of just stroking one day and dying. And now that was her choice. 做手术你将完全失聪，不做手术你将冒着有一天中风猝死的风险。现在是她作出选择的时候了。The deafness thing, I will only, I will find some funky, corky way to make it work f

9、or me, to, you know be the, the person in the family that just like, wow, you know, she's deaf but she just does it so well! 耳聋的事情，我会我会找到一些时髦、活泼的的方式把它搞定，对于你知道的，在家庭的人，就像喔你知道，她是聋子，但她能做得如此好！Today marks thirty days until my big surgery.今天距我的大手术还有三十天And so in the month before surgery, Jessica sets ou

10、t to record the sounds that make up her world. 在手术前一个月，杰西卡开始记录她的世界中的声音。Dig, doggy, dig a hole.小狗，挖挖一个洞Playing her bongos, making her morning smoothy. The hope is one day these images will remind her of the sounds she can no longer hear. 她打起手鼓，在早上享受了一杯冰沙。希望有一天这些图像会提醒她这些再也听不到的声音。Well it's hard to

11、change the way you lose if you think you never won. 如果你认为你没有赢，很难改变你输的境遇。She practices her sign language by learning to sign her favorite song “All We Are” by Matt Nathanson. Just three weeks before surgery she gets to meet Nathanson at his concert, the last one she will ever hear. 她通过学习用手语来表达她最喜欢的歌曲

12、，马特·内桑森的All We Are，来练习她的手语。就在手术前三周，她在内桑森的音乐会上遇见了他，这是她能听到的最后一场音乐会了。On one hand it's great to meet the person. On the other hand, you know, I am never gonna to hear him sing again. So you know, it was a definitely emotional thing last night. 一方面，能遇见了他这是极好的。另一方面，你知道，我再也不能听他唱了。你知道，这绝对是一个的令人动情的晚

13、上。With one week left she takes in the gentle roar of the wind and waves of the beach. 只剩下一周了，她尽情聆听着海滩上的风和海浪温柔的咆哮。Oh, it's gorgeous, listen to those waves.噢，听那涛声，多么美丽动人。And then all too soon the day of surgery is here. It has been a long 30 days and, yeah, very long very hard. 然后不知不觉地，手术当天很快就到了。这

14、是一个漫长的30天，是的，很长很艰难。We talked and laughed and all kinds of things the night before, we wanted to get every minute in and you know nobody wanted to go to bed and then all of a sudden it's 6 a. m. and you're in the hospital. 前一天晚上，我们对各种事情有说有笑，我们想抓住每一分钟，你知道没人想去睡觉，突然，到了凌晨6点，而你在医院里。That morning in

15、 the hospital, tense emotional moments, one last conversation. 在医院的那个早晨，充满紧张情绪的时候，最后一次谈话。I love you. 我爱你。A final “I love you” and listening one last time to her favorite song as she is wheeled into the operating room. 最后一个“我爱你”，最后一次听着她最喜欢的歌，她被推进了手术室。In the end, the words won't matter. 最后时刻，言语并不重要。After 13 hou