Hiccups For 15 Months
Desperate crooner Christopher Sands is hoping an operation will finally cure his hiccups after 15 months. The guitarist and professional backing singer suffers every day, sometimes every two seconds for up to 12 hours at a time. Christopher, 24, said: “They might stop for a bit and I can have a kip. “But I’ve lost count of the sleepless nights and I can never eat enough to keep my energy up.” The hiccups lasted for two weeks in September 2006, then returned for good in February 2007. Christopher, from Lincoln, reckons he must have hiccupped 10 million times since then. He said: “I’ve tried everything to stop them. I must have drunk water a hundred different ways. “Sometimes if I hunch into a ball I can hold them off for a bit, but it freaks people out.” Doctors have diagnosed a faulty stomach valve and will operate to create a new one within weeks at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham.
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