An English Man wakes from a Coma Speaking French and Convinced he is Matthew McConaughey

I will admit to mistakenly thinking I was good-looking—this occurred only one time and was the direct result of drinking tequila.  Interestingly enough, tequila is also responsible for the huge blank space in my memory where the better part of two days should belong.

No recollections at all.  Nada.

I am now convinced that tequila is a gateway drug.  What I mean by that is: tequila is the very gate to hell.

As bad as all of the above sounds, imagine yourself waking one day speaking a foreign language and convinced you have become a famous movie actor.  That is exactly what happened to Rory Curtis, a 25 year old Englishman from Worcester.

Mr. Curtis landed in a coma following a nasty car crash on a rainy highway.  Rescue workers required the better part of an hour just to extricate him from the wreckage.  Rory, among other damages, suffered from internal injuries that left blood leaking into his brain.  Doctors and nurses worked for six solid days to save his life.  Rory remained comatose for the entire six days.

When Rory Curtis finally came about again, he was speaking rather fluent French, a language he studied a little back in high school, and he was convinced that he was Matthew McConaughey, the famously handsome actor.  While there is a somewhat tenuous connection to speaking French, the leap to thinking he was Matthew McConaughey is curious for Mr. Curtis—not that he is particularly bad-looking—but Matthew McConaughey is godlike.

Rory more or less drifted in and out of thinking he was Matthew McConaughey and struggled a bit with many normal activities at first.   After months of treatment and re-training as a barber, Rory Curtis settled back into his normal life again.

When submitted to traumatic experiences such as car crashes and tequila, the human brain will perform peculiarly.  I often wonder which of these experiences, if either, is responsible for the whacky behavior of Gary Busey and wonder when he will recover.

Posted is a photo of Rory Curtis.

--Mitchell Hegman