Posted on 02/19/2022 5:01:29 PM PST by simpson96
A Dutch teenager completely forgot his native tongue after waking up from surgery and could only speak English, doctors have revealed.
The unidentified 17-year-old boy, thought to be from Maastricht, was in hospital for a knee operation following an injury during a football match.
But after he awoke from the anesthesia, he was unable to speak or understand any of the medics, who were speaking in Dutch.
Instead, he was only able to talk in English — a language he had only been learning at school and never used outside of the classroom.
The boy also failed to recognise his own parents and believed that he was in the US, specifically in Utah, a country he had never visited.
After 24 hours, the teenager 'spontaneously' recovered both his ability to speak and understand his native language after friends came to visit him.
And doctors who treated him, at the Maastricht University Medical Center, claim he has retained his native tongue since.
Detailing his case in a medical journal, scientists believe he developed an extremely rare case of foreign language syndrome.(snip)
With just eight cases recorded worldwide in scientific literature there are scant details about foreign language syndrome.
How common is it?
Extraordinarily rare, there have been only eight post-operative cases recorded in scientific literature since 1999.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
One member of the rat pack winks.
Full eloquent German words.
In the early 1990’s I was working with a 38 yr old ER Nurse from a hospital near me. She had idiopathic pain in her left shoulder and arm causing her to go on disability as she was unable to work. She had a letter from her primary care physician stating it was ok to use hypnosis.
She was somnambulistic and immediately went into a deep trance. All I did was ask, “If that pain in your shoulder could speak, what would it say?”
A male voice answered me out of this woman’s mouth (his voice) stating “Get Out of Here.”
It shocked me as I had never heard about anything like this and it was beyond my belief system.
I replied “Who said that?”
He answered me, telling me his name, where he was from and that he was killed in an auto accident on Rt 15 in South Williamsport(PA) in front of McDonald’s. He had followed his body in the ambulance into the ER where he saw this woman in distress and moved into her.
He went on to tell me his wife’s name, children’s names, address, phone number....
I asked him what caused his physical death. he explained that he was thrown from the car and it rolled on him. I asked what part of his body. He replied his left side.
That is when I first realized that memories are stored in the human soul and not in the physical body. This man’s memory of the pain of his accident was manifesting in the ER Nurse.
I asked him why he was in her and he replied that he loved her.
I asked him if he loved her how he could cause her this pain.
He replied that he was unaware that he was causing her pain.
“But you know it now?” ‘You realize that you must leave?” He replied “Yes.”
I asked him if he would like to apologize to her for the suffering he caused before he left. he replied “Yes” and started apologizing.
I asked her if she would accept his apology and her own voice replied “Yes.”
Suddenly her left arm flew upward and her hand opened up, relaxed and came down limp.
Her pain was gone, permanently.
I left out a lot of details, but this was the first of many similar experiences over the last 30 plus years.
The Bible is very accurate.
I was referring to people who spoke a foreign language after an injury (specifically, head trauma).
What anyone can or can't speak after being beamed aboard a UFO and spending time with aliens is far beyond my knowledge.
Have these sort of things happened to you since then?
Yes, GK, said so in the post. ;-D
I know an ER/surgical nurse who said she’d experienced countless events that led her to understand that life goes on after death.
Your experiences and thoughts about them add some of the many missing details to my understanding so far.
And you’re absolutely right about the Bible, too. What an amazing gift from God!
Mine too; however, it seems you know of the case.
All the Dutch people I know speak 3 to 5 languages. They have to. Few people in other countries speak their language so they have to learn English, German and French to communicate.
Only what I pulled up in a quick internet search after reading your post; I had never heard of this person before.
The book “The Andreasson Affair” would raise your eyebrows.
Thanks.
Just as long as he didn't start praising Joseph Smith!
Well, back in the day...
This teen bears watching: to see if he now has an affinity for more than one girlfriend...
...and many more that you’d LOVE to forget; too!
The church has them.
7 People Who Had the Seer Stone in Their PossessionAdapted from the Joseph Smith Papers | Aug. 06, 2015 By now you have probably seen the pictures from the Church of Joseph Smith’s original seer stone, released in conjunction with the printing of an original manuscript of the Book of Mormon. But do you know how the Church came to obtain the stone? According to David Whitmer, (1) Joseph Smith gave the seer stone he used to (2) Oliver Cowdery after the translation was completed. Shortly after Oliver Cowdery’s death in 1850, Oliver’s brother-in-law Phineas Young obtained the stone from Oliver’s widow, (3) Elizabeth Whitmer Cowdery. (4) Phineas Young then gave the stone to his brother (5) Brigham Young, who apparently had no seer stones other than those that had belonged to Joseph Smith. He stated in 1853 that he had “Joseph’s 1st Seer Stone, which I had from O[liver] C[owdery]”. The stone remained with Brigham until his death. (6) Zina D. H. Young, one of Brigham’s wives, then bought this and one other seer stone from his estate. Zina D.H. Young and her daughter (7) Zina Williams Card then donated the stones to the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This seer stone was accompanied by a handwritten note that explained its history, and was signed by Zina Williams Card. Later, in 1882, Apostle Franklin D. Richards saw the stone in President John Taylor’s possession and recorded in his journal that “the pouch containing it [the stone] [was] made by Emma,” meaning the wife of Joseph Smith. |
I shudda read ahead!
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