two of life's mysteries

i have heard before about women giving birth to babies when they don't even know they are pregnant. i didn't know a lot about it, but i looked it up a little bit and it's pretty interesting. can you imagine, not knowing? and suddenly, something seems very wrong, you seem very sick, and it turns out you are in labor? what a shock. it happened to these women. this is also an article that talks a little more about it. wow. certainly one of life's mysteries ...


another is foreign accent syndrome. i had never heard of it before, but it came up as a Yahoo! news story today. it is quite intriguing. i cannot imagine simply waking up one day sounding like a completely different person! of course, in these cases, it seems as though the joy of being able to speak at all (for example, after a stroke) was a blessing in the first place! i imagine they are happy to be able to speak at all, no matter what language or accent!