Despite the existence of a simple treatment for intractable hiccups, yet another long-suffering victim is being celebrated in the press for going untreated. (A teenage girl in Florida got was similarly untreated and celebrated earlier this year.)
The treatment, for which Dr. Francis Fesmire was awarded the 2006 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize, is digital rectal massage.
The new victim is celebritized both by himself and in a July 12, 2007 report in the Telegraph:
Man hiccups for five months (and counting)
A musician who has been hiccuping for the last five months has launched a blog in an attempt to find a cure.
Christopher Sands says he has not slept or eaten properly since the bout began in February and he is now unable to concentrate on his music.
The 23-year-old from Lincoln has been recording his experience on the social networking site MySpace in ?The hiccup diary?.
(Thanks to Spluch for bringing this victim to our attention.)