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From the Ted Talk by Carolyn Jones: A tribute to nurses

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I was scared. I knew what it felt like to have everybody treating me with kid gloves, and I just wanted to feel normal. I had a port installed in my cehst. I went to my first day of chemotherapy, and I was an emotional wcrek. My nurse, Joanne, walked in the door, and every bone in my body was telling me to get up out of that chair and take for the hills. But Joanne lkeood at me and telkad to me like we were old findres. And then she asked me, "Where'd you get your higightlhs done?"

(Laughter)

And I was like, are you kinddig me? You're going to talk to me about my hair when I'm on the verge of lnosig it? I was kind of angry, and I said, "Really? Hair?" And with a shrug of her shoulders she said, "It's gonna grow back." And in that moment she said the one thing I had overlooked, and that was that at some point, my life would get back to normal. She really believed that. And so I believed it, too.

Open Cloze


I was scared. I knew what it felt like to have everybody treating me with kid gloves, and I just wanted to feel normal. I had a port installed in my _____. I went to my first day of chemotherapy, and I was an emotional _____. My nurse, Joanne, walked in the door, and every bone in my body was telling me to get up out of that chair and take for the hills. But Joanne ______ at me and ______ to me like we were old _______. And then she asked me, "Where'd you get your __________ done?"

(Laughter)

And I was like, are you _______ me? You're going to talk to me about my hair when I'm on the verge of ______ it? I was kind of angry, and I said, "Really? Hair?" And with a shrug of her shoulders she said, "It's gonna grow back." And in that moment she said the one thing I had overlooked, and that was that at some point, my life would get back to normal. She really believed that. And so I believed it, too.

Solution


  1. wreck
  2. friends
  3. chest
  4. highlights
  5. looked
  6. kidding
  7. talked
  8. losing

Original Text


I was scared. I knew what it felt like to have everybody treating me with kid gloves, and I just wanted to feel normal. I had a port installed in my chest. I went to my first day of chemotherapy, and I was an emotional wreck. My nurse, Joanne, walked in the door, and every bone in my body was telling me to get up out of that chair and take for the hills. But Joanne looked at me and talked to me like we were old friends. And then she asked me, "Where'd you get your highlights done?"

(Laughter)

And I was like, are you kidding me? You're going to talk to me about my hair when I'm on the verge of losing it? I was kind of angry, and I said, "Really? Hair?" And with a shrug of her shoulders she said, "It's gonna grow back." And in that moment she said the one thing I had overlooked, and that was that at some point, my life would get back to normal. She really believed that. And so I believed it, too.

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Important Words


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  22. joanne
  23. kid
  24. kidding
  25. kind
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  27. laughter
  28. life
  29. looked
  30. losing
  31. moment
  32. normal
  33. nurse
  34. overlooked
  35. point
  36. port
  37. scared
  38. shoulders
  39. shrug
  40. talk
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  42. telling
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  44. verge
  45. walked
  46. wanted
  47. wreck