Posted on 04/14/2010 12:25:16 AM PDT by myknowledge
A Croatian girl has woken from a coma unable to speak her native language — instead talking in fluent German.
The 13-year-old girl, who lost consciousness for 24 hours two weeks ago, has doctors baffled by her bizarre condition.
She had been studying German at school and watching German television shows, but her parents maintain she was previously unable to freely communicate in the language.
"You never know when recovering from such a trauma how the brain will react," the UK Telegraph quoted KB Hospital director Dujomir Marasovic as saying.
"Obviously we have some theories although at the moment we are limited in what we can say because we have to respect the privacy of the patient."
Various experts have examined the teenager, from the southern Croatian town of Knin, but all have failed to make a diagnosis.
She was initially admitted to hospital for blood poisoning, Croatian media reports.
Tests are continuing.
Some days I feel like I woke up from a coma & the government was taken over by communists. Can you help me, Doc?
I had a neighbor who played piano by ear....hear it once and she could sit down and play any song. She said her mother tried to get her lessons as a kid but she was impossible to teach, too boring for her when she could play any song once she heard it....it just boggles my mind to how people can do such interesting things..
yep, thats the one I was thinking of...;o)
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