Our little scare

The past couple of weeks, every so often, Jackson would complain that his side hurt or his back or head. He's also been having a hard time going to bed, saying he's scared, etc. So we weren't quite sure if the "pains" he was having were real or just to give him the excuse to stay up with us, as the pain typically was at bedtime. Thursday night Jackson couldn't sleep and came to us crying. He said his tummy hurt. He couldn't get comfortable enough to sleep and pointed to where his side hurted. He even came to me with tears in his eyes asking me to please help his tummy stop hurting. It absolutely broke my heart. We called the on-call dr, and I was just to the point of taking him to the ER when she called back and told us it didn't sound like he needed to go, but bring him in to office in the morning. So we did. I was shocked at the problem-constipation! The boy goes like 6 times a day! Anyway, maybe he just got a little backed from being sick earlier in the week. Simple solution is Miralax, great now both kids are on it. The only other thing it could possibly be is his intestines might be kinking up and then get untwisted. It's very rare so she doesn't think that's it, but if it was, then we would need to go to Vanderbilt Children's hospital WHILE he's in pain, so they can do the tests, they can't do it if he's not having the pains. So, I'm hoping the Miralax does the trick and no more pains for him. It's really awful watching your kids crying in pain asking for help and you feeling like you can't do anything about it.