Poor Mee - Reflux Redux
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 1:22PM “My love is nt a game im real n dnt wnt a fake lien cheaten azz nigga”
- Jennifer Mee, from her Myspace page
On February 16, 2007, I wrote a post about the poor St. Petersburg girl who couldn’t shake off hiccups. Believe me, I could relate. Although hers lasted more than a month, mine only hung around for about 2 weeks. Doctors tried everything with her, but in my case, a heavy dose of one medication in particular knocked them for a loop. Today, at the first sign of a hiccup, I panic. No way do I ever want them again.
Interestingly, and in one of those “Whatever happened to…” moments, Jennifer Mee has resurfaced in the news, not that she ever reached an acclaim that gave us pause to wonder where she went to begin with. Today, the now 19-year-old sits in a jail cell in St. Pete, charged with first-degree murder, along with two cohorts. In a statement released late Sunday, Sgt. T. A. Skinner, of the St. Petersburg Police Department, said Mee had been arrested along with Laron Raiford, 20, and Lamont Newton, 22. All three had been taken into custody in connection with the death of 22-year-old Shannon A. Griffin. Allegedly, Mee lured the victim to a house where the other two robbed him. When he struggled, he was shot several times. Dead. They admitted their involvement to authorities.
This is a sad story. Where did she go wrong? During the course of her young life, nothing has come close to this, which I would describe now as a giant hiccup that will rob her of her freedom for years to come. No one is accusing her of pulling the trigger, but in Florida, when someone dies during the commission of a felony, everyone involved in the crime can be charged with murder, even if Mee had no idea of the outcome. She had to have known a gun was involved.
Here is her profile, in her own words, at Myspace:
My name is jennifer, im almost 19 but dont let the age fool you, the struggles ive been through has made me grown up so much. Im always havin fun chillin or vibbin to some gucci:) im a down ass chick and all the others will never compare so dont try me like im the next hoe. Ive lived in florida for a while now but my heart is still in vermont? im trying to better myself and just move on in life. Im single& not lookin but if a real nigga comes along then im here:) hit me up if you need to kno anymore
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/jennifer_plies#ixzz13OqZA4JA
In any event, this is the story I wrote back in the beginning of 2007. My hiccup encounter was over 6 years ago now. By the way, Jennifer’s mother found my story and commented. You can read the original HERE, along with those comments.
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Poor Jennifer Mee. She’s the 15 year old girl from St. Petersburg, Florida who can’t seem to shake off the hiccups. She’s had them for more than 3 weeks now. I can definitely relate. Two years ago, I had them for a week and a half and they pretty much drove me nuts, or as my friends might say, nuttier than I already was. I did a lot of research on the Internet, trying to find any sort of cure. I experimented with just about everything I read, to no avail. I tried holding my breath. I put sugar under my tongue and in the back of my throat. I breathed into a paper bag and drank out of the wrong side of a glass. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. I could not sleep at night and I got desperate. Finally, I made an appointment to see a doctor. My doctor had died, so I had to find a new one, one who had never met me or knew of my medical history.
When I got in to see this new doctor, I (hic) explained (hic) my (hic) dilemma. He looked down my throat.
“I don’t like the redness I’m seeing,” he said. He listened to my neck, chest and abdomen. After a few minutes of careful examination, he made a diagnosis. “I believe you have a lung tumor.”
My heart sunk down into my butt. That should have been enough to scare the hiccups away, but it didn’t. “You’re kidding?”
“No, that’s pretty much what I think it is. I’ve had cases like this before and that’s what it generally has turned out to be. I’m going to schedule you for chest x-rays and an upper GI.”
“Oh, wow. In the meantime, can you give me anything, like Thorazine?”
“Thorazine? How do you know about that?” he asked.
“I looked it up on the Internet.”
“No, really, how did you know about Thorazine?” He gave me a rather sharp and puzzled look.
“I’m telling you, I tried looking for a cure on the Internet and read about it.” Thorazine (chlorpromazine) is a drug prescribed for schizophrenia. Seriously. It’s also used to treat chronic hiccups. I think he wondered if I had a history of schizophrenia or some other psychotic problem.
[I recall responding to my doctor when he asked me about Thorazine. After the second time, I turned my head to the right and openly told my imaginary friend to mind his own business; that I would answer. Be Quiet! It was at that point he laughed and realized I was a joker and that I was in complete control of my faculties. Ha!]
“Yes. I’m going to give you a prescription for that.” I felt a little relieved, in the hope that this drug would cure me. Hic, I mean, heck, I was more concerned with getting rid of this immediate problem than I was about dying of lung cancer. I left, and hiccuped my way to the pharmacy.
When I got home, I immediately unscrewed the cap and swallowed one of those pills. An hour later, nothing. Man, I thought, this is crazy. I took another one. About an hour after that, I was in some sort of la la land I had never been to before. Wow. I was somewhere up in the clouds and decided I needed to get into bed. That was it for me. I woke up the next morning and the hiccups were gone. Bingo! Cured! My first solid night of sleep in what seemed like forever.
The following week, I went to get the tests done and a few days later, I went back to see the doctor. As I was walking into one of those waiting rooms, he passed me in the hall and said he had some good news and some bad news, but don’t worry, the bad news isn’t that bad.
He walked in with some papers. “You do not have a tumor. You have a hernia on your esophagus. You also have one here and here.” He pointed to parts of my stomach. “You also have GERD.”
GERD is short for gastroesophageal reflux disease. I have always had bad heartburn and I knew I had damaged my esophagus through the years.
“I want you to get some Prilosec OTC and take 2 capsules (not one) a day.”
“For how long?”
“Until I tell you to stop.” which I interpreted as never. “I’m also going to write a prescription for an ulcer medication, not that you necessarily have one, but it will aid in the GERD.”
I had a couple of follow up visits and everything seemed fine. I never really got the hiccups again, at least not like that. Every time I do hic a few times, I get scared. Oh, by the way, I asked what I should do with the rest of those schizo pills. “Throw them away. You don’t need them.”
Yeah, right, like I was going to do that. Hah! At least, I never drove when taking them. That would have been crazy.
[To be truthful, I don’t believe I ever took them again. The hiccups were gone, but as a former Boy Scout, I learned to be prepared, just in case. - My heartfelt condolences go out to the Griffin family.]
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Reader Comments (67)
Gangsta Girl showed no sign of Tourettes unless that was her problem to begin with,
I don't think they have found Zahra. Weather is getting bad and they are securing the scene and returning tomorrow. They did find the matress so maybe she is nearby.
Mattress - sorry
Sorry, everyone, I've been busy today. I will return in about an hour.
Hi, Karen C...Yeppers, Mr. Trevena is saying that Tourettes caused her hiccups and caused her to (my words)...use bad judgement...I was wondering what he was gonna say...I don't buy it!!! ...IMO she knew right from wrong and never should have agreed to help out her "homies" in that way...by luring the unsuspecting young man to the designated meeting spot...It looks like this might go to trial after all with Mr. Trevena at the helm...I'll just have to take it day to day until there is more info...She's got a good attorney and I'm sure he will do his best for her...
GLENDA - I used to be pro death penalty, too, but it was a conversation I had with someone that changed my mind. Personally, I am against abortion, too, but I would never push my opinion on anyone, and certainly, not a woman. To me, death is death and who are we to take away a life? Sure, babies are innocent and a murderer is not, but a life is a life.
There's no doubt Casey hoodwinked her parents for years. I'm surprised she wasn't working on her college degree and needed money for her education. In other words, anything to make a buck. That would have helped her monetarily AND excused her from playing mom. I'm sure her parents would have taken care of Caylee, and it seems that they did most of the time, anyway.
No, you don't sound harsh. Your opinion is practical. Casey was harsh and cold, not you.
Hi, Martha - My, my, your granddaughter has had GERD since birth? Wow! I don't know how many years I had it before I was put on the medication, but it had to have been years. It is a very unpleasant disease and I know I sucked down Tums and Rolaids for a long, long time. I wonder how a baby can have it, unless acid comes up while still in the womb, because it stems from a worn out esophagus. The esophagus turns into the stomach. At least, it did in my case.
It's been unseasonably warm here in central Florida. Usually, the weather changes in mid-October, but this year it started earlier and suddenly warmed back up. It's been in thr 90s, but a cool down is set to roll in on Friday, as the courtroom will be heating up. I don't know how you could live without AC in your car. More power to you, because I sure can't. Did you fix it yet? Believe me, I've been through the same thing and Augusts here are terribly hot. Anyway, thank you, and I loe ya, too!!! Stay cool.
Ecossie possie? You're good! I love it. I'm sure that would cure everything.
From ABC News:
The father of missing North Carolina 10-year-old Zahra Baker was arrested early today on charges unrelated to the disabled girl's disappearance, including assault with a deadly weapon.
Adam Baker, 33, was arrested at 3:12 a.m. on five counts of worthless checks, two counts of communicating threats, one count of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of failure to return rental property. Adam Baker was taken into custody while at the Hickory Police station after voluntarily coming in to give a statement, a police official told ABC News.
Zahra, who lost her left leg and hearing in a childhood battle with cancer, was reported missing on Oct. 9, the same day a $1 million ransom note was found on their property. Zahra's stepmother, Elisa Baker, was arrested the next day on unrelated charges but eventually admitted she penned the ransom note, police said last week. She has been charged with felony obstruction of justice.
Police embarked on a new, "promising" search today for Zahra's remains on property less than a mile from a home where Elisa Baker lived three years ago, an investigator told WSOC. It's the latest target of a search that expanded quickly from the Baker's home to the surrounding area, to a wood chipper and mulch piles at the end of a dead end street, to old family homes and, most recently, to a landfill roughly 20 miles from the Bakers' current home.
A WOOD CHIPPER?!!!
Hi, Nika1... GO GATORS!
Yes, Dave, "wood chipper". That's what the dogs had hit on. Neighbor said mulch had smelled really bad, too. Have no idea right now what is up- rumors flying around, both the twits pulling useless info app. out of their 2 butts, sending LE hither and yon, this is going to bankrupt those two counties, I'm sure. Big ole mess. it's a worthy case to follow, though. We drive through that area a lot- thousand zillion acres that little girl could be in...
Thanks Dave - I hope we win but no matter what happens I am still a gator and bleed orange and blue!!!
Dogs hitting on a wood chipper is not good news at all, Karen. She looked like such a sweet little girl. Through all the bad, she kept smiling and greeting the day with such enthusiasm. She should be a lesson to all of us. Think of the good in everything.
Well, Nika1, no matter what happens Saturday, this is a young Gator team and they have only one direction to go in and that's up.
Would someone please tell me why you can give your child a pat on the butt in a pulic place and someone will call and have you arrested, but then they will watch children living such miserable existance and being abused, no one does a thing for her. This poor little Zahra,her own father and and birth mother did nothing. I hope God has a Special Hell for them. Little Zahra,Caylee. Haliegh, little Trenton Duckett and allthe others never had a chance at life. It just makes me so furious that so many people think that a childs life is so disposable and their lives mean nothing. I just do not understand how it can be. Thank you all for letting me vent.
No prob, Margaret (Dave's likely asleep)- I for one completely understand- it's like the worse a situation is, the LESS likely it is to be addressed...
Margaret, Karen - I don't know what to say. After reading your post all of their little faces pressed hard upon my heart and mind. There isn't a day, anymore, that Brianna Lopez doesn't tug at me. Cindy and George, in my opinion, should have known, or at least suspected, in my humble opinion. Cummings leaving his children in the care of a druggie. What the heck was he thinking? But then, he wasn't/isn't a whole lot better. Aja Johnson. Remember her? There are to many to name, but I hope we never forget and will not ever be silent.
This news just in...Judge denies bond for Ms Mee...Is it any wonder??? Haven't read the particulars, but saw it on Bay News 9...news flash...