When Toby Gilbert was 6 years old, he started complaining of abdominal pain. The pain became so unbearable that he would cry out that he didn’t want to live anymore. “He would just be in the bathroom saying, ‘Something ripped. Something tore. I think this is the end,’” Toby’s father remembers.
Heartbroken and desperate for answers, his parents, Tedd and Lorraine Gilbert, took him to the ER and consulted multiple doctors. Despite undergoing a battery of scans and receiving a range of diagnoses—including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), abdominal migraines, and anxiety—none of the treatments offered any relief.
