Aussie woman shares update one year after waking up with Irish accent post-op

Angie Yen, a dentist in Brisbane found herself dealing with foreign accent syndrome after undergoing a tonsillectomy.READ MORE:Australian woman wakes up after major surgery with Irish accent and she is extremely confusedSpeaking to 7Life.com.au, she revealed that a year on from when the ordeal started her accent still isn’t back to what it was.

“I still struggle to pronounce words sometimes in my professional life as a dentist - embarrassing at times, people struggle to understand what I’m saying and I get frustrated being asked to repeat myself.”Angie is not Irish, she has no Irish family, she has never even visited the country.“I felt like I was waking up in someone’s body but it was my face I was seeing in the mirror. I was very confused.

“I had no idea this could happen overnight to people and learned that it was most commonly caused by neurological triggers such as from stroke, seizures and migraines,” Angie said.

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