My dad told me about Earle’s chronic hiccups last week. This is just crazy:
Just listening to him tell his story, your heart goes out to Earle Robinson.
“When I wake (hiccup) up in the morning (hiccup) they’re okay, they’re gone (hiccup),” he says, albeit slowly. “But (hiccup) then they come back a couple hours later (hiccup) and it’s been that way (hiccup) every (hiccup)… everyday.”
The medical explanation is his diaphragm’s contracting every few seconds or so–a case of hiccups so persistent it’s town to get a sentence out. It’s been that way since Wednesday.
His co-workers are baffled, and he says his doctors are stumped, and there are few jobs worse to have if you have hiccups than Earle’s.
He does an hour-long radio show called “Sportstalk 870″ on WKAR from 2-3 p.m. weekdays and an hour with Tim Staudt on Staudt on Sports Sundays on WILX.
Staudt explained it to viewers Sunday, and Robinson suffered through the broadcast but his radio chairs been empty for a week.
“I’m starting to feel bad,” producer Rob Bennett says, admitted they’d given him some grief. “I just want him to get back.”
“I’ve tried eating a spoonful of mustard,” he says. He also tried eating a spoonful of peanut butter, drinking water really fast, and drinking water upside down. All failed. Holding his breathe also failed. Valium is helping him sleep and, for now, he’s just praying those hiccups fade away–soon.
God, what a nightmare.
Dad, I’m assigning you the task of busting into Earle’s office tomorrow to try to scare those hiccups out of him.
happy birthday my cutie!
How to put this delicately….let’s just say that when he’s on valium, ain’t much of anything scaring Earle!
This has happened to Earle before, and I can only imagine how frustrating it is. He’s a really good guy, and we’re all hoping he gets well soon.
Hiccups suck. I get them sometimes from not cleaning fruit well enough and my throat gets irritated. So to stop them I take sucrets, it is one of the few things that seems to work for me.