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[mrissa]

Onie has been diagnosed, and the c-word was not in the diagnosis. Her condition may be treatable with medication, or it may require surgery, but the point is, it's treatable. And there was much rejoicing.

Also with Mary and Jimmy's wedding: much rejoicing. It went beautifully, I had a good time, and there are some pictures to see. There's one in there I'm particularly fond of, me and Kari and Aunt Jenny and Noah. I'm holding the baby. It's my favorite picture of any of us in a good while. Go look.

Minneapolis types: where are there good used bookstores that are more general than the standard Uncle Hugo's/Dreamhaven run? I plan to do that particular booking run soon, and we'll spend a lot of time/money on it. But one can't really find much in the way of history books there, nor science, nor...well, you get the point. Sometimes one needs something a bit more general.

In a totally irrelevant note, I got The Lingen Hiccups today. You know how most hiccups sound like a dainty little "hic, hic, hic?" Not The Lingen Hiccups. Oh no. These are the equivalent of shouting "HICCUP!" while punching oneself in the diaphragm and shaking all over. Wheeeeee, what fun. Does anyone else get these stupid things besides my family members?

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[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I get the Hideous Hiccups too, but no one in my family does, so they think I'm faking it. :p

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Do you have a cure for them?

So far my default is a hug from somebody much bigger than me; if I can lean in and relax, that sometimes works. Other times not.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

A spoon of sugar used to work, or clenching the muscles in my sternum. But lately that hasn't. I'll have to get assaultdoor to give me a squeeze next time, though! I've never tried that.

If they go on long enough I get headaches. -_-

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yep, I get headaches, too. Sometimes it's either a migraine trigger or a pre-migraine indicator, not sure which.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Bookhouse in Dinkytown, Magers & Quinn uptown.

K.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Those are my hiccups.

My mother once disowned me in the middle of a shopping mall on account of them. (She took me back thirty seconds later, though.)

My theory is that the exceptional violence of my hiccups--especially the ones that feel like a small fully-armored knight trying to punch his way out through my sternum--comes from playing soccer and singing in junior high and high school chorus when I was a teenager. Ergo, a large rib-cage and powerful diaphragm. So when something gets off-kilter, everybody knows about it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that may be it. My doctors always tell me that I have big lungs ("did you see the set of lungs on that broad?"), and when I broke my ribs coughing, the doctor said, "Well, you're not a very big girl, and that's a very big cough." And I think my Lingen cousins have pretty decent airflow as well.

Do you have a cure for them?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Nothing entirely reliable.

Sugar often works, as wintersweet suggests. And I've found if I take a deep breath and tighten my diaphram while holding the breath, that'll sometimes even things out. Of course, if you hiccup in the middle of the held breath, that plan kind of goes down in flames.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I invariably hiccup in the middle of a held/tightened, which makes it hurt worse and sometimes pops my ears.

Sugar has never, ever worked for me. My aunt, who also gets these hiccups, prescribes ice cream with hot fudge. She swears up and down that the combination of hot and cool and sugary will do the trick. I've never once had it work for her or for me, but the up side is that the cure is not too painful anyway.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Half-Price, the Evil Empire, has a place on Ford Parkway.

Then there's 'Books on Snelling', which has a TON of Norski stuff and stuff about early Minnesota/Twin Cities history.

Bookstore?

[joelrosenberg.livejournal.com]

Book Trader, on 34 Avenue, just about six blocks north of the crosstown. Lots of books, and if you bring something to trade, Fluffy's standard half-cover-price drops to quarter-cover-price. Mention my name, and it might drop a little more.

I don't know how thorough her history section is, but she's got lots of lots of things.

Heck, if you time it right, you might be able to say hi to me -- I've been stopping by at closing, most days, of late, just to keep and eye on things.