Her waist hurts

Nora has been saying "my waist hurts" for weeks now. The longer this goes on, and the less diapers she produces, it becomes clearer that what she really means is "my waste hurts". I asked her pediatrician about it when I took her in for that weird rash the other day, and the two of them had a discussion about using the potty. The pediatrician, whom we adore, told Nora that sometimes kids feel a little bit scared about using the potty, and that it's okay but that it's fine and fun to use the potty just like the other big people she loves. The upshot for Nora seemed to be, "I'm a lil bit scared to use the potty" though. I heard that for a week.

Now, instead of a daily diaper, we're getting a weekly one, with her waist hurting all the time. Over the holiday weekend Ian and I were up with her in the wee hours in the morning for hours trying to figure out whether acute pains in her side with no other symptoms could be the same old thing or appendicitis, and whether a call to the pediatrician or visit to the ER was really necessary without even a fever to accompany it. Egads.

Well, one trip to the pediatrician and one to the radiologist later, and we have some news. Nora does NOT have an impaction, which was the concern. She DOES have some experience with severe constipation, wicked painful gas, Xrays, enemas, and laxatives. Poor kid. Fiber anyone?