"Boy awakes from coma addicted to cheese and swearing"

Independent: Doctors were forced to put Kai Thomas in a coma while he recovered from a brain bleed last year, and though he eventually regained the ability to move and speak he was left with two bizarre side effects (also ones I experience from time to time when drunk).

"He's addicted to cheese and he can't stop swearing," his mum Tracey told the Daily Mail.

"One day I was in the kitchen, when I heard Kai yelling in his bedroom," she added.

"He was screaming 'F*ck, bastard, sh*t'. I wondered what on earth was going on - the expletives were coming thick and fast."

She headed upstairs and found her son chowing down on a wheel of cheese. She's since noticed more of it going missing from the fridge.

"He had always liked cheese but now he was obsessed with it - he even added it to his cereal," Mrs Thomas said. (read more)