Having the hiccups is annoying. Having them for an hour is a pain. Having them for a whole day is pretty awful.
I can't imagine how it feels to have them for nearly 12 months in a row. Sadly, Bo Jackson can:
Bo Jackson has been suffering in intermittent silence.
The multisport legend will undergo a procedure later this week to address a bout of chronic hiccups that he has dealt with since July 2022, he said Wednesday...
Hearing about a man suffering from the hiccups for just under a year is painful, especially when that man is a two-sport legend who played nine seasons in the MLB with the Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox and California Angels and four seasons in the NFL with the Los Angeles Raiders.
It's no joke. That sort of thing is probably profoundly disruptive to one's life. Imagine how much of a nuisance it is to be hiccuping for like twenty minutes straight. Now imagine hiccuping for 500,000 minutes straight. Nightmare.
And honestly, after all that time, you probably get a bit desperate. You'll try anything. Herbs, homeopathy, naturopathy, whatever. And it sure sounds like Mr. Jackson did as much:
I have done everything: scare me, hang upside down, drink water, smell the [rear end] of a porcupine. It doesn't work.
Smell the backside of a porcupine, eh?
That usually only ends one way.
