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Who cares what she does in church at a moment like this. She was a sick child.

I agree. My son has IBD, so I feel for this child and her mother. A year from now my son will start high school. They keep the bathrooms locked at the high school with only one open on each of the two floors -- in a school with more than 1300 students. It's a stupid and ineffective attempt to keep the kids from smoking. Kids wait in line for up to a half hour -- missing class -- to use the bathroom. I have a year to figure out how to address this.

>>>I have a year to figure out how to address this.

Find a good lawyer with experience with the Americans With Disabilities Act...then sue the school for failing to meet needs of those afflicted with IBD.

I use to work at an airbase that had a civilian facility inside. The facility had a basically a CEO - a retired Army Colonel who graduated from West Point and a ring knocker.

He kept putting in new cubicle spaces but he refused to put in more bathrooms. Even for men, you had to sometimes wait 15 or twenty minutes to use a sit down toilet. Where his office was at, he would use the bathroom near it. When he went to use the bathroom, he would kick people out. Pretty bad.

I also worked for a DoD contractor at one time and most of the people who worked there were former IBMers. We had inadequate bathrooms for the number of people we had and a lot of times, I would go to the 3rd floor to use the can. Our company had part of the 3rd floor, the whole 4th and 5th floor as well. On the 3rd, our company had a separate bathroom and the main 3rd floor bathroom was never used since the people we shared the building with were dental offices. One time, my manager who I didn't get along with called me to task for using the 3rd floor bathroom and told me in no uncertain terms that I was not use that bathroom and he didn't care if I had to wait to go. One of his minions reported me. Seems like he and his minions had nothing better to do than to poke into other people's business.

I have a loved one with Crohn’s disease, so I understand your concern. I’d definitely work with your son’s doctor/gastroenterologist, and the school admins...as well as his teachers. Start now and keep nagging the school until your son gets the access he needs. It’s horrible to suffer from the anxiety of worrying about bathroom access when you have IBS, IBD, or Crohn’s.