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Family Ties Forever! · 02-16-2007, 02:01 AM

I would hate to have the hiccups for that long.

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Teen Suffers Three Weeks Of Hiccups

Posted: 9:17 am CST February 15, 2007

You might get the hiccups from a good belly laugh. But what's happening to Jennifer Mee is no laughing matter.

The 15-year-old Floridian can't stop hiccuping.

For more than three weeks, Jennifer has hiccuped close to 50 times a minute when she's awake. And she's got the doctors stumped.

Blood tests, a CAT scan and an MRI haven't helped. Neither has holding her breath, breathing into a paper bag or drinking out of the wrong side of a glass.

And, yes, people have tried to scare the heck out of her.

Jennifer's mom, Rachel Robidoux, recently turned to the St. Petersburg Times for help. She's hoping a member of the public might have a solution to her daughter's case of the chronic hiccups.

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Jo_Luvs_Ketchup · 02-16-2007, 02:15 AM

I hate hiccups as it is for just 30 seconds or so. Three weeks, I'd probably die!!!

PZelda · 02-16-2007, 02:30 AM

That's not a world record, though. There was this guy in the Guinness books who had the hiccups for DECADES.

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# There is a world record for the person who had the hiccups the longest. He was a pig farmer in America and he had the hiccups from 1922 to 1987. That’s 65 years!

He got the hiccups when he was slaughtering a pig on his farm in 1922.

Hollow · 02-16-2007, 02:53 AM

there have been cases of people suffering from them for years.

PrettyinPink55 · 02-16-2007, 03:11 AM

I can't stand hiccups!!! Wow!!!!

catlover79 · 02-16-2007, 01:27 PM

Kay Scarpetta · 02-16-2007, 02:31 PM

oh my god... i can't even imagine it.

Janice · 02-16-2007, 03:48 PM

That's crazy. That poor girl. My mother used to give us a spoonful of sugar when we were kids and had the hiccups. It rarely worked.

catlover79 · 02-16-2007, 03:53 PM

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That's crazy. That poor girl. My mother used to give us a spoonful of sugar when we were kids and had the hiccups. It rarely worked.

Thanks, Janice...now I have "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins going through my head. THANKS!!

Janice · 02-16-2007, 03:57 PM

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Thanks, Janice...now I have "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins going through my head. THANKS!!

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, the medicine go down, the medicine down. Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, in the most delightful way.

A few years ago, I had The Jefferson's theme song playing in my head like a radio for close to a week. It was terrible.

Jo_Luvs_Ketchup · 02-16-2007, 04:01 PM

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Thanks, Janice...now I have "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins going through my head. THANKS!!

Me too!

80sTrivia · 02-16-2007, 04:55 PM

That's crazy!!! I hope the poor girl gets some relief from her hiccups... soon!

Sharop · 02-16-2007, 06:05 PM

It's horrible when you get the hiccups in public. I always hold my breath when I get them. That usually works.

catlover79 · 02-16-2007, 06:15 PM

With all due respect to Julie Andrews, I'd much rather have the Jeffersons song in my head.

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