I Probably Would Kill Myself

I remember waking up on a weekend morning about a month ago watching the Today Show on an interview with a teen girl named Jennifer Mee who was suffering from a case of constant hiccuping. They said the hiccuping started about two weeks before Jennifer aired on the Today Show and it was indefinite to when it would start because hiccups are still random and unknown to us, they seem to just come and go for a short period of time. Although it was Jennifer who was suffering from the hiccuping, it seemed like Jennifer’s mother was suffering just as much or more than Jennifer was. From what I remember from the interview, Jennifer’s mother tried everything to help stop her daughter’s hiccuping. Even visiting multiple doctors whom left her with nothing to cure it. As I heard Ann Curry interviewing Jennifer’s mother, you could hear Jennifer’s involuntary hiccuping “Hic…hic…hic.” I recall myself thinking, “Wow. That really sucks for her and if it continued forever, I probably would kill myself.” Just this morning I read the Time Magazine around the Milestone page where it informs us who died or something big happened to someone. Right next to it titled Numbers, I read “36 Days that Jennifer Mee, a St. Petersburg, Fla., teen suffered from constant hiccuping that stopped only when she slept.” So after a more than a little over a month, Jennifer’s hiccuping stopped just as randomly as it started. If this happened to me, you’ll probably find my article in the obituary.