'Hiccup Girl': People Who Think I'm Faking Are Ignorant
Doctors Stumped Over Mee's Condition
POSTED: Thursday, February 22, 2007
UPDATED: 1:00 pm EST February 23,
2007
A 15-year-old girl who has been hiccupping nonstop for nearly four weeks said people suggesting she is faking the condition are ignorant, according to a Local 6 News report.
Jennifer Mee has had blood tests, a CT scan and an MRI since the fits started. Drugs haven't worked. Neither has holding her breath, putting sugar under her tongue, sipping pickle juice, breathing into a paper bag nor standing upside down.
Doctors have reportedly said she is not faking it but are stumped by the contractions.
"Tonight, she is sending a message to anyone who doubts these hiccups are the real deal," Local 6's Jacqueline London said.
"They are ignorant, very ignorant because I'm not faking it," Mee said. "It is real. If I was faking it, I would have stopped four weeks ago."
Mee said the national attention has been nice, but she has still tried every remedy offered to stop the hiccupping.
Mee has been hiccupping about 50 times a minute since January.
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