If you’ve ever experienced abdominal cramping due to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn’s disease or any other problems with the intestines, you know that they can be truly incapacitating. How do I know? I was hit yet again this week.
It had been a while since I had such bad cramping. While I  used to usually experience pain of about 7 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst ever, I think this week’s was 9, if not 10. And it just started out of the blue.
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This week is one of those insanely busy weeks. I have just about every second scheduled on my to-do list. Truman goes to preschool on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, so I was already looking forward to a productive day Wednesday. Truman had slept in a bit in the morning – no surprise as we had friends over the night before and he got to bed late. He woke up happy and all was right in the world until, just minutes before we were to leave the house, he folded over and started wailing that his head hurt and his belly …read more