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Monday, December 15, 2008

Take a deep breath...

Hic!

Tonight, I’ve got a bad case of the hiccups. I mean bad. Every few seconds I get hit with a sudden

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Yeah, like that. I can’t concentrate for more than

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I wonder what causes hiccups, anyway? I wonder if there’s any way to rid yourself of

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Of course, there are a few "home remedies" that are supposed to help. There’s the old standby of

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This is getting me nowhere. I don’t think I’m going to be able to write anything tonight. I think I’ll just

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Oh, bloody hell. This sucks. I can’t maintain a train of thought

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Maybe if I tried holding my breath...

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Nope, that didn’t work. Maybe I could frighten myself out of them.

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That didn’t work either. I guess after eight years of George W. Bush nothing scares

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This is nuts. I had so much I wanted to write tonight. I was

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I was going to write something about the economy. Not very original, I admit, but I was going to say that

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I had this idea about something Garrison Keillor said back in

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Oh, Jesus H. Christ, how the hell am I supposed to get anything done when I

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Bugger it. I give up. I’m going to bed. Maybe if I’m lucky I’ll dream about

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The Blues Vi

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These hiccups are mine. Get your own.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ask the medical librarian! Hiccups are a spasm of the diapraghm. The only thing I've found that helps is to breathe in and out of a paper bag. That ups the amount of CO2 in your system. Why it helps, I don't know.