Anyway, I don’t need to spend my two hours and 15 minutes a day worrying about the gym because now I have found a new topic to vex me. What if I get perpetual hiccups?
There was a man on the radio yesterday morning who had suffered from this affliction for two years, and didn’t know what had caused it.
He has drunk water in every different way he can think of, gone on long runs, had his friends regularly surprise him and slept in an oxygen chambers, but he still carries on hiccuping.
Because doctors don’t know why we hiccup, they don’t know how to make him stop.
He admits his problem makes it difficult to chat up women and, even if he managed to ask one out on a date, he wouldn’t be able to take her out to dinner because he struggles to keep food down.
Either that puts concerns over rogue facial hair and wrinkles into perspective, or it just provides something else to worry about.
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