Stephanie Nielsen
In the beginning of Stephanie Nielsen's speech she explains how she met her husband. She said the first time she saw him she felt electrified; at that moment the sound system made a squealing screech. "It was like that," she said much to the audience's amusement and laughter. She proceeded to tell the story of her experience of August 16. She had been on a tragic airplane crash that left 80 percent of her flesh severely burned. In order to heal she was placed in a medical induced coma for three months.
Her speech gets pretty graphic (as she forewarns) when she starts discussing her treatments and skin graphs. Her body had to be scrubbed clean and at times her body would reject skin the new skin tissue. When this happened she would be scrubbed clean again and new patches would be replaced. She describes the pain as unbearable and mentions during these times she would try to go off to a place where she was beautiful, healed, and healthy. …show more content…
As time passed in the hospital she would ask doctors to take down the pictures her children had drawn for her, they didn't look like me anymore, she explains. She gets emotional as she describes viewing herself for the first time, she was frightened. When looking in the mirror she did not recognize the person in front of her. It scared her and if it scared her it must have scared other people. But as she continued to move the mirror up she recalls seeing her green eyes. It was her dad's green eyes and it was then she had a very special spiritual
In the beginning of Stephanie Nielsen's speech she explains how she met her husband. She said the first time she saw him she felt electrified; at that moment the sound system made a squealing screech. "It was like that," she said much to the audience's amusement and laughter. She proceeded to tell the story of her experience of August 16. She had been on a tragic airplane crash that left 80 percent of her flesh severely burned. In order to heal she was placed in a medical induced coma for three months.
Her speech gets pretty graphic (as she forewarns) when she starts discussing her treatments and skin graphs. Her body had to be scrubbed clean and at times her body would reject skin the new skin tissue. When this happened she would be scrubbed clean again and new patches would be replaced. She describes the pain as unbearable and mentions during these times she would try to go off to a place where she was beautiful, healed, and healthy. …show more content…
As time passed in the hospital she would ask doctors to take down the pictures her children had drawn for her, they didn't look like me anymore, she explains. She gets emotional as she describes viewing herself for the first time, she was frightened. When looking in the mirror she did not recognize the person in front of her. It scared her and if it scared her it must have scared other people. But as she continued to move the mirror up she recalls seeing her green eyes. It was her dad's green eyes and it was then she had a very special spiritual