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.
Monday, December 15, 2008
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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.
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