We were in the midst of the “Great Recession,” 2010 and full-time work was hard to find, so I worked three part-time jobs. If that wasn’t stressful enough, my “internal plumbing” was giving me a lot of trouble. Most of my days were spent juggling work schedules and looking for bathrooms. I was tired all the time but blamed it on the fact my day started at 5 am, to make sure I got my “morning business” done before I was sitting on the 5 freeway, driving to my first job. There is nothing worse than having a bathroom emergency and finding yourself stuck in rush hour traffic! Over the years I saw different doctors hoping to find out what was going on and each of them told me the same thing; I was suffering from stress or IBS — caused by too much stress. Then one day I found drops of blood on my toilet paper after I wiped myself. About six months before my “correct” diagnosis, a nurse practitioner insisted the blood was from hemorrhoids that were p...
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