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I was alone in a house being screamed at by my baby for up to 12 hours a day for months and months and months (a gastro-intestinal problem was diagnosed at 10 months).
It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Honestly, if there were no gastro-intestinal or social repurcussions (it was a co-worker's birthday cake), I would have eaten the rest of the cake that was left - which about half of a cake that is 12 inches in diameter and four inches thick.
This is why I will always have the gut Tyler 2009
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When my dog developed irreversible gastro-intestinal problems, I had the same dilemma.
Your dog is very old and very sick and you know it's time to have him put to sleep. 2009
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In the days before fancy medical technology, doctors looked at the color and texture of poop to help diagnose gastro-intestinal illness.
Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? Boing Boing 2009
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When my dog developed irreversible gastro-intestinal problems, I had the same dilemma.
Your dog is very old and very sick and you know it's time to have him put to sleep. 2009
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Irritable bowel syndrome IBS has long baffled gastro-intestinal experts.
When Everyday Foods Are Hard to Digest Melinda Beck 2011
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Then he delivers a roughly 25-minute monologue in rhyming verse that is by turns loony, ingratiating, egomaniacal, desperate and, shall we say, gastro-intestinal.
A British Star With a Midwestern Accent Ellen Gamerman 2010
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If, back in your hazy, beer-sodden, poverty-stricken Halcyon days you happened to be walking across campus with the remnants of last night's ramen-and-potted meat casserole slowly destroying your gastro-intestinal tract and you saw this hopping by would you:
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However, it's not as bad as all that, although the ache in my back is killing me, and my bowel movements, well, they've not been quite as regular as a gastro-intestinal specialist would desire, though things could be worse, oh yes, much, much worse.
How To Find Yourself (or a reasonable facsimile) Vincent Eaton 2012
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I grabbed a few extra leaves of the plant used for gastro-intestinal distress.
Archive 2009-04-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
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