>> you know, when things like this come up, you tend to get retriggered and you can go there in your mind, but i try to focus on the present and not to live in the past as much, but it is definitely a challenge. i am grateful and i definitely wake up every day being grateful that i'm alive and i am here, sitting here. >> you are proof that these young ladies, that they can go on and lead a life, as normal as a life can be after that. i will ask your advice to them a little later. let's talk about your story quickly. did you even know that you had been taken or had been kidnapped from your mother because this was your baby-sitter and you were so young. >> well, yes. you know, my reasoning didn't grow until i grew older, but i knew something was bizarre because the way the situations we were in and living and the life-style that we had, and it was very difficult. we didn't have anything as so to speak a normal life, and we didn't live like most people did. we were in hiding. we lived in hiding my entire childhood and many different names. it was a challenge. so as i grew older, i becam

people are -- and it's very retriggerring in terms of trauma, and i think we need to work with health professionals to teach them how not only to be aware of this but how to work with that in helping people recover from ill unless. it's all so integrated, and i feel very excited to be having this discussion, and people seem much more receptive than i thought they would be. >> thank you very much for coming and sharing your story. so beautiful. i just want to ask you what it's like coming from the great mayo clinic and traveling to the congo and how were you able to kind of bridge the gap in privilege with the care you received and the care for women in congo. >> it's a very good question. i want to tell you a great story about the mayo. i had -- before i got sick i was working with doctors at the mayo clinic through various circumstances to bring them to pansy hospital, and they were going to do operations and help them, and we had been building this whole team of doctors from the mayo who were coming, and they weren't my doctors. they approached me because they nye of my work. so thi

and it's very retriggering in terms of trauma. and i think we need to work with health professionals to teach them how not only to be aware of it, but how to work with that in helping people recover from illness. because it's also integrated. and i feel very excited to be having this discussion, and people seem much more receptive than i thought they would be. yes. >> hi, thank you very much for coming and sharing your story. it's so beautiful i just wanted to ask you what it's like coming from, you know, the great care you received at the mayo clinic and traveling to congo, and how are you able to, you know, bridge the gap in privilege with care you received and the care the women in congo may or may not have? >> that's a very good question. and i want to tell you a great story about the mayo. you know, i had -- before i got sick, i was working with doctors at the mayo clinic through various circumstances to bring them to the hospital to operate in the congo, and they were going to do operations with him and help him. and we had