Hiccups And The Cure

Hi guys, I got these information's at MayoClinic, and I decided to post it here. About the cure, I can't remember anymore the name of the website cuz its been a while.

Almost everyone has had hiccups. Some people even have them before they're born. "Singultus" is the medical term for hiccups, derived from the Latin word "singult," which means the act of catching your breath while sobbing, an apt description of the way hiccups sound. Although they can be embarrassing — especially if the "hic" pops out of your mouth in a quiet room or during a meeting — hiccups are rarely cause for concern.
Often, there's no obvious cause for hiccups. Sometimes they may be the result of eating a large meal, drinking a carbonated beverage or sudden excitement. Rarely, hiccups may be a sign of an underlying medical condition. Hiccups usually disappear on their own. If your hiccups don't go away after a few minutes, home remedies may help. If hiccups persist for more than 48 hours or if they are so severe that they interfere with eating or breathing, see your doctor.

The characteristic sound of a hiccup, sometimes preceded by a small tightening sensation in your chest, abdomen or throat, are the only signs and symptoms associated with hiccups. People may have as few as four hiccups a minute or, rarely, as many as 60 hiccups a minute.
How long your hiccup episode lasts determines the type of hiccups you have:
Transient or acute hiccups. This is the most common form of hiccups. Transient hiccups include hiccup episodes that last less than 48 hours. Most bouts of transient hiccups last only a few minutes. Persistent hiccups. These hiccups last longer than 48 hours, but less than a month. Intractable hiccups. Hiccups fall into this category when they last more than two months.

A hiccup is an unintentional contraction of your diaphragm — the muscle that separates your chest from your abdomen and plays an important role in breathing. This contraction makes your vocal cords close very briefly, which produces the sound of a hiccup. Although there's often no clear cause for a bout of hiccups, some factors that can trigger acute or transient hiccups include:
Eating spicy food. Spicy food may cause irritation to the nerves that control normal contractions of your diaphragm. Eating a large meal, drinking carbonated beverages or swallowing air. These can cause your stomach to expand (distend), which pushes up your diaphragm, making hiccups more likely. Drinking alcohol. Alcohol can relax your diaphragm and vocal cords, making it easier for other factors to trigger hiccups. Sudden temperature changes. A quick change in temperature, either inside or outside your body, such as drinking hot liquids and then cold liquids or your shower water switching suddenly from hot to cold, can set off hiccups. Tobacco use. Tobacco use may irritate the nerves that controls the diaphragm (phrenic nerves), causing hiccups. Sudden excitement or emotional stress. Although it's not clear why stress or sudden excitement causes hiccups, it may be due to the effect being startled has on one of the nerves involved in the hiccup reflex (vagus nerves). Rarely, hiccups may be the result of an underlying medical condition. When this is the case, the hiccups usually last longer than 48 hours. More than 100 causes of persistent and intractable hiccups have been identified. They are generally grouped into the following categories:
Nerve damage or irritation. Damage or irritation of one of your vagus nerves or phrenic nerves is the most common cause of persistent or intractable hiccups.
The vagus nerve serves as a communication pathway between your brain and organs, such as your heart, lungs and intestines. There's one vagus nerve on each side of your body. These nerves run from your brainstem through your neck and down to your chest and abdomen. The phrenic nerve controls movement of your diaphragm. There's one phrenic nerve on each side of your body. The phrenic nerves run from your brainstem through your neck and down to your diaphragm.
Examples of conditions that may damage or irritate these nerves include a foreign body (often a hair) in your ear, a tumor, cyst or goiter in your neck or chest, gastroesophageal reflux, or an abscess on your diaphragm.
Central nervous system disorders. A tumor or infection in your central nervous system, or damage to your central nervous system as a result of trauma, can release your body's normal control of the hiccup reflex. Metabolic disorders. Metabolic disorders that may cause hiccups include a condition that interferes with the ability of your kidneys to keep wastes from building to toxic levels (uremia) and a condition that results in less than the normal levels of carbon dioxide in your blood (hypocapnia). Surgery. General anesthesia and complications following surgery can cause intractable hiccups. Mental or emotional triggers. Anxiety, stress and excitement have been associated with some cases of persistent or intractable hiccups.

The Cure. It may not work for everybody. It sounds funny but this is what I found in searching for hiccups cure few years ago. At first, I keep laughing cause it's unbelievable, but then I told to myself, hmmnnn..... there's nothing to loose if I'll try it. So I did try it, and believe me or not, it works and I was so amazed. Do you wanna know what is it? Well, the cure for hiccups is WAITING. Yes, waiting is the cure. If ever hiccups strikes on you, stop whatever it is you're doing and concentrate on waiting for your next hiccups. Just concentrate, and you'll be surprised... the hiccups that you're waiting won't come back again. I tried it myself and it works. Hopefully it'll work for you too.

Renal Cell Carcinoma (Kidney Cancer)

Around 2:00 AM in the morning last month, June 10, my husband rushed to the hospital for having an intense stomach pain. They did a CT Scan and some other tests. The result, he had appendicitis and it needs to come out right away. Around 9:30 am they did a laproscopic surgery, it took 1 and 1/2 hours and it was a successful one. Since it's tuesday when he got in, he got a "two for tuesday special" meaning that aside from his appendicits, he also had a cyst on his left kidney. So when the doctor told us that he had a cyst on his kidney, we thought that it's just a small one. But when the doctor came to the room after the surgery, he told us a very shocking news. The cyst is not just a cyst, it's cancerous and it's like a size of a baseball. I found myself crying while listening. I can't believe it, my husband don't have any symptoms at all. If not because of his appendicitis we wouldn't find out that he already had a kidney cancer which what they called "renal cell carcinoma." It's so hard on me to think that my husband is very sick, i felt like the world is tumbling down on me. But then I realized that evrything that happened is a blessing from God. He lets us know everything about it before it's too late. He wants us to take care of it before it gets worst. Like what the scriptures said, " everything works together for good according to His purpose...."

July 15 at 7:30 am, my husband had his second surgery, and this time the surgery will take 300 minutes or 5 hours. They did a hand assisted laproscopic surgery as planned but it didn't work. The tumor is too big and it's so hard for them to take it out. They tried that procedure for two hours. Then they decided to switch to the old fashion way, the open surgery. The 5 hours time passed by but the surgery is still going. In short, the 5 hours became more than 7 hours. It's a very long wait for me that makes me so nervous. Thanks to all of my friends who were there at that time trying to comfort and distract me. And for those who called, emailed and left messages on my YM, thank you so much my friends. To my friends who took care of my kids while I was in the hospital, thank you so much. God bless you all. Most of all, thanks to God for guiding the hands of the doctor and for giving him a safe and successful surgery. He really is watching us and cares so much for us. Thank you Lord for everything, amen.

You want to see what it looks like? Here's the picture of the kidney that they took out.

God Is Good All The Time

Yes it's true, God is good all the time. We may not notice it, cuz most of the time we are too busy in everything. But if we just spend time to think about God and think all the blessings that He gave to us, I'm telling you, there's a lot. We're so abundant with His blessings. The only problem is most of the time, we don't recognize it. The only things that we recognize easily are those bad ones and not the good ones. Why is that? Well, maybe because only at that time we remember God and sometimes ask Him, why God? Why all these things happening to me? That's usually what people asks to God when they have troubles. Well, let me ask you. Everytime you got a blessings or in every good things that came in your life , did you thank God for it? Or did you remember Him? Did you spend time to talk to Him and thank Him of all the blessings and abundance that He gave to you? Did you spend much time to Him when you're happy than when you're sad? Maybe yes or maybe not. We need to remind ourselves that God owns everything. He is our source, He's in control and He is good all the time. When bad things happen to our life it doesn't mean God don't loves us. He do loves us, and that's true. All we need to do is trust Him with all our hearts and lean not on our own understanding, acknowledge Him in all our ways and He will direct our path. Amen. Let's not forget to spend time with Him everyday and give thanks in everything, cuz God is good. Yes He is. Praise be the name of Jesus.

Who Really Is Our Comforter When It Comes To Problems?

Everyone has their own problems in life. Whether we like it or not, trials will come our way. They'll come in an instant. How or when? We don't really know. There are different problems that comes in our lives, both big and small. Some are solved right away and some take a long time. Some of them are caused by nature and others by people. But the most painful ones are when loved ones, family, or close friends are the source of pain. And when we are in pain, our mind sometimes doesn't think right. Anger, disappointment, and frustrations dominate our thoughts.
But WHO REALLY IS OUR COMFORTER WHEN IT COMES TO PROBLEMS? The answer is: The LORD. Nobody can give you peace of mind and help you get through it except HIM. We can do nothing without HIM. The bible says: "All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." (ROM 8:28) It doesn't say: "All good things work together for good". It says: "ALL THINGS", meaning both bad and good things that will come into your life will in the end give you a good blessing. We don't know how or when. But let's just try to think of all the blessings that He has given to us and compare them to the problems that we have. He blesses us abundantly. So instead of questioning Him why all these bad things are happening to us, let's just thank Him for all the blessings that we have and praise Him all the days of our lives. The truth is, we really don't have the right to question God (JOB 38-42). We're just His creations. He can do whatever He pleases (PSALM 135:6). He is GOD Almighty and no one can fathom His sovereignty. God is good all the time.

Lord, thank you so much for your loving kindness. For giving me peace when I'm in trouble, for opening my eyes and heart to see how good You are to your children. Thank you for the salvation oh God, and for all the blessings that You gave to me... my husband, daughters and my family back in the Philippines. Jesus...I thank you for everything from the bottom of my heart. Amen.