Thursday, September 04, 2014

The Australian man who woke from a coma speaking fluent Mandarin (but couldn't remember English)

Two years ago Ben McMahon woke up from a coma more than a week after a horrific car crash that almost claimed his life only being able to speak Mandarin.

The 22-year-old remembers how he woke up and saw a nurse who looked Asian standing by his bed and said to her 'Excuse me nurse, I feel really sore here' in Chinese.

He then asked the nurse for a piece of paper and pen and he wrote on it in Mandarin: 'I love my mum, I love my dad, I will recover.'

His new-found language skills baffled his doctors as well as his parents.

Ben's father, Mark, and his mother were told it would be a miracle if their son survived. Full story...

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