Hey all! I haven't posted for a very long time, but everyone's in a sharing-mood lately, and I had a particularly hateful case of hiccups this morning, so I figured I may as well share.

I woke up around six (yuck, don't ya just love early mornings?) and showered, got dressed, and got ready. I was running late so I skipped breakfast(not wise). My school serves breakfast, so when I got there, I found my friends and we went in to eat. They were serving sausage muffins this morning and I'm a vegetarian, so I opted for the rice cakes and a sobe. We sat down and then my friend remembered that we had a quiz in first period today, so we started to eat really fast, and you know what that led to. I swallowed the last piece of my rice cake a bit too quickly and needed to drink something, so I grabbed a friend's coke (fizzy pop. good idea, piper! Just what you needed!) and started to chug it. Rice cake + coke... you do the math. I finished the coke and immediately hiccuped. This first hiccup was so hard it threatened to knock me over. My friends turned to look, and we all started laughing, which made me hiccup again and again... By about my 7th hiccup it was a full blown case and they were absolutely miserable. I had to rush to my locker to get my book, and I was panting because I was running so fast, which just made them even worse. They were coming in clusters of 3 and 4 now, with a cluster coming about every 4-5 seconds. Every once in awhile I would do a single hiccup, which was double-syllabled. I had to rush to get up to class, which made them even WORSE and they turned into duoble-syllable clusters of three, every 4 seconds, like, "hicCUP-hicCUP-hicCUP... hicCUP-hicCUP-hicCUP..."

Something you should know about me: when I am upset, my hiccups get FAR WORSE than usual. When I got to class, I was late and got a detention, and I hadn't studied for our quiz at all, plus I was already upset about my hiccups. My punishment: they got harder. Each hiccup rocked my entire body in my chair.

Fifteen minutes into class, the teacher looked up from her desk and said, "Miss Caloway, please take your hiccups down to the nurse's office." I have to admit, I was relieved. In class, everyone had been staring at me and my stomach was really starting to hurt.

I went to the nurse's and she offered me a jolly-rancher, saying to suck on it really hard and they'd go away. I did so, and to my great surpise, they DID go away.

Unfortunately for me, when I get the hiccups, there is no such thing as a happy-ending. After lunch they returned again in full swing, lasted for about an hour, then suddenly stopped, and now I'm hiccuping again and it's very difficult to type! They are about 8 sec apart and double syllables, but thankfully they aren't in clusters. I've had them for about an hour and they show no sign of stopping. I hope they do soon-- I have to get some sleep!

Well, I'll keep you posted!