Who's watching 'The man who can't stop hiccupping? (BBC1)

[FluffyForLifeNotJustForXmas]

Poor bloke.

oh my, that must be horrendous, poor guy. hiccups are fucking annoying for a few minutes let alone 2 years.

I'm shouting at the telly "drink a glass of water with a knife in"

Do you want me to tell you the outcome?

No, I know the outcome. Poor bloke, this should have been checked for here as hiccuping is a symptom of what was wrong with him (not trying to give anything away).

He mentioned at the start of the programme that he had been given that test so not sure why it wasn't picked up earlier.

No, he'd not been given the one he needed.

I'd have gone mad if I was hiccuping this much.

Poor poor chap. When he talks it sounds as if my tv is on the blink.

tell me the outcome. is it stomach tumour?

Kind of, he has a tumour on the back of his neck, at the base of his skull. He's alive though, he was on the 1 show last night.

I want to know the outcome too. About to go to bed and need to know!

x-post! Thanks, Fluffy.

Poor bloke.

oh fuck, brain stem tumour.

oh x-post/not reading all posts

Ahh, they should have done an MRI first as it's no radiation involved. Poor bloke. I'm pleased he lived though.

bloody hell, there's no bullshit with that surgeon is there!!! Say it like it is

i think that level of honesty is great, he's a bit macho surgeon though

Yeah but messing about confuses the patients.

I wondered why he was smiling and being so flippant. The surgeon that is.

oh no!
hiccups coming back!

how's he messing about?

I mean skirting around the issue. I've met alot of doctors who do this, most patients just want it said how it is, they are often really frightened and just want to know.

yeah but he may not know 'how it is' until he gets in there, and has to take into account all the variables involved in such a procedure, and make sure that the patient can give informed consent.

True.

Surgeons are all odd characters, I know one that still wears a dickie bow, nice bloke though.

rofl. I did my nurse training and found most surgeons to be odd, I think it's because they have to put up with being titled 'Mr' rather than 'Dr'.

It could be! We have ones that like to call everyone 'darling' (even the men)