When your child is suffering, you will do almost anything to make things better. For Beth Lovett, that meant saying yes to an IB-Stim device for her daughter’s chronic abdominal pain. The fact that it looked like a strange, high-tech hearing aid didn’t faze her.

“Sometimes the episodes were so bad that Madison would just lie in bed and roll around in pain,” Beth says. “She missed a lot of school and activities with friends. We were ready to try whatever Dr. Santucci recommended.”