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Did anyone see this story on the news... you got to feel for the guy - he had the hiccups for two years... turned about to be a tumour on his brain!
Jesus. Aside from the brain tumour side, I couldn't do that.
My dog goes crazy when anyone sneezes or has the hiccups, little guy would have gone insane!
I can't believe it took the doctors 2 years to realise it was a tumour.
I watched the programme about him last week. The poor guy was in a really bad way. It affected everything, including work, relationships, etc. He'd had a CT scan in the UK but it didn't show anything abnormal so they didn't go on to do an MRI scan. It was only when in desperation, he took his story to the media, that a Japanese tv company wanted to feature him that a Japanese doctor, who had been studying hiccups for 20 years, contacted him to say he could treat him and performed an MRI scan showing the tumour. The benign tumour was located precariously close to his spinal column but doctors back in the UK operated and removed most of it and hopefully once the swelling goes down he will make a full recover, save for a six inch scar in his neck.
Fascinating programme.
yep, and here's a link to the story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/linc ... 148480.stm
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