Look, don’t let me have a run-in with hiccups. After just two minutes of a “hyuck” here and a “hur-up” there, I’m running to find a glass of water to chug.
I’m not even sure if chugging water actually works with hiccups. That’s just what I’ve been told. It doesn’t matter, though — I’m still guzzling. And that’s only after a few minutes.
Now, imagine having hiccups for nearly a year at any point in your life. Yes, exactly. It sounds horrible. It could quite literally be the worst experience ever. And it’s apparently happening to Bo Jackson right now.
In an appearance on McElroy and Cubelic in the morning with former Alabama QB Greg McElroy, Jackson opened up about having hiccups since last July.
He’s now resorting to medical intervention to help:
“I’m getting a medical procedure done the end of this week, I think, to try to remedy it. I’m busy at the hospital sitting up with the doctor’s poking me, shining lights down my throat, probing me every way they can to find out why I’ve got these hiccups.”
And, yes, he’s done all the things they say you should do to get rid of your hiccups already. He’s tried drinking water. He’s tried to scare himself. He even said he smelled a porcupine’s butt — yes, you read that correctly — to try and get rid of the hiccups. And the hiccups just won’t go away.
And, y’all, this is happening to Bo Jackson. Greatest-athlete-of-an-entire-generation Bo Jackson. If it’s happening to him, then what does that mean for the rest of us?
It’s probably not good, folks. Probably not good. Get well soon, Bo.
