I have a prob­lem with hic­cups. I’m not talk­ing the com­puter bug kind. I am also not describ­ing the kind of bumps in your life that cause mis­steps. I am talk­ing about phys­i­cal invol­un­tary bod­ily hiccups.

Xie can just think her hic­cups away. She chides me and thinks every­one should be able to do it. Need­less to say this approach has never worked for me at all. A cou­ple years ago I looked up online how to cure hic­cups since when it hap­pens it com­pletely dis­rupts every­thing around until they are gone.

The cure I found that works for me is to take a spoon­ful full of sugar and swal­low it. Why does it work — I don’t know. It may all be a men­tal process that is purely psy­cho­log­i­cal. I can accept that as long as they go away.

Need­less to say I just had the hic­cups and went to the break room and had a spoon­ful of sugar. Hic­cups were imme­di­ately gone. Thought I would share for those that may also suf­fer from hic­cup problems.

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