Name: Gratitude, Healthcare, and Coding Communities by Tejas Kumar | Community Lounge | JSConf EU 2019
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T18:59:47.000Z
Duration: 4 min 27 s
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The story's going to start out a little bit grim, but I promise you it gets better.

We'll start with a little known fact that human beings bleed all the time.

Like if you ever done anything normal, like carrying a backpack, climbing upstairs, walking to work, you've started bleeding internally.

But you stop very quickly before you even notice So you don't get bruises.

You don't have major issues with blood loss.

So I've been in the emergency room from climbing stairs, opening doors, throwing a ball, going to school.

Um, these things have almost killed me multiple times.

And if I don't take my medication, I will die.

I will just bleed to death from like sitting in the audience and clapping, clapping, literally.

Clap was in the emergency room once for clapping.

Um there is medication and medication is good.

Um, the thing is, it costs a lot of money.

I know I'm short on time, but I correctness is really important.

Um, I was born in India, where it's densely populated, and there isn't that good of a health care system.

But very quickly as a baby moved to Qatar, where my father got a job and I'm really thankful to my father because he spent 20 years working this job and the treatment in Qatar was great.

The medicine was free, but the treatment model was on demand.

And all that means is wait until he's in critical condition near death and then give him medicine.

As a result, the 1st 23 years of my life were spent on this like pendulum between living and dying.

I would go to school one day and spend the next three weeks in the emergency room I in an entire school year, I would attend only like 19 days of school.

So there's not much you can do when everything kills you.

My brother is healthy, and so he got to go to all the classes.

He went to a computer class, learn HTML and would come back home and teach me what he had learned.

HTML and I would get really excited with super thankful to my brother for teaching major TML when you can't do anything else.

There's only so many movies you can watch and games you can play until they get boring and you start coding.

And that's what I did for seven years straight.

Just coding, making websites, whatever on.

And my mother, who I'm super thankful for, encouraged me to take part in some type of Web design competition that I ended up winning of scholarship to university and the whole bunch of money.

And with eventually with that came a job.

My 1st 1 of my first jobs eventually work the job for a while, super thankful for people who were willing to work with me, though I needed like four hour lunch breaks for medicine, and eventually that job led to another job where I was able to get on a plane and move to Germany for work now in Germany.

So up until this point, I'm on this pendulum right between living and dying.

I have PTSD and things, but come to Germany.

What that means is I just take it all the time, whether I'm sick or not.

And as a result, I'm just like you now help the I work on one of the greatest teams writing code with such a wonderful team who I'm super thankful for and because I can finally travel and I'm no longer bound by health care or medicine.

I've been able to go to so many conferences all around the world doing talks, encouraging people.

This is this is my life today that I'm incredibly thankful for to the health care system, to the developer communities and to you.

And so today I'm just really committed to doing this and spreading the love, the hope, the positivity.

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