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Brain surgery patient wakes with Irish accent


Posted on Wednesday, 29 April, 2009 | 18 comments

A man from Yorkshire who underwent brain surgery and spent three days on life support following a ruptured blood vessel awoke in a hospital bed and started speaking and singing in a strong Irish accent.

A Yorkshire man woke up from brain surgery to find he'd turned from a flat vowelled, thrifty dalesman into a blarney kissing, 'Danny Boy' singing, happy-go-lucky Dubliner. The Daily Mail reports that 30 year old Chris Gregory spent three days on life support, after a blood vessel in his brain ruptured."

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Comment icon #14 Posted by xris on 29 April, 2009, 13:19
I heard he had a blarney stone removed..and his Ok now.

Comment icon #15 Posted by cryptid_control on 29 April, 2009, 18:43
aha thats funny

Comment icon #16 Posted by Benz on 29 April, 2009, 22:50
my thoughts exactly

Comment icon #17 Posted by AGoodWriter on 30 April, 2009, 1:00
Will they do another operation to get him to be ok?

Comment icon #18 Posted by schizoidwoman on 30 April, 2009, 2:03
I don't think it's something you can change back with an operation so I imagine he would need to be coached back into this original accent; perhaps a speech therapist or even a dialect coach!

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