My Poor Baby!!

I know I've mentioned it before on here, and also in my last post, about Isabella's major struggle with constipation. As of today it has been 10 days since she has "gone". I've given her two enemas in the last two days, and they didn't work! I can't believe it. Besides, the poor girl is traumatized, and I mean completely. traumatized. from having them. I absolutely cannot give her any more enemas, both physically and emotionally! Watching her sit on the potty and try to go brings me to tears every time, the only way to describe it is like watching someone in labor, seriously! We took her into to the pediatrician this morning, and he did something he hasn't done in the past when I have taken her in for this problem. He ordered that X-Rays be done to see what was going on inside. Thank goodness Monte came along because I couldn't be in the room with her while she was getting the X-Rays, because of being pregnant. Instead, I sat out in the waiting room and listened to her terrified screams of "Daddy, hold me!!!!" I told her they were just going to take pictures of her tummy, but when they told her she had to have her clothes off, she thought they were going to give her another enema, and she FREAKED OUT! She also told me later that she thought the X-Ray was going to fall on her, since she was laying on the table with it right above her. :( It's hard to imagine what was going on in that little 3 year old mind of hers. Anyway . . . I'm so glad we got the X-Rays done because they showed that she has 4 major blockages in her, and they are huge. One is down low where you would expect it, but the other 3 are way up high in her digestive tract, which is a little unusual. Who knows how long they have been there, possibly a very long time, which is why we can never seem to get ahead of the problem. The doctor said we need to give her half a bottle of magnesium citrate today and tomorrow, and that should clean her out. We also need to give Mira.lax for the next couple of weeks, and then gradually taper off. He said magnesium citrate is usually his last resort in little kids because it tastes so awful, and it's hard to get them to take it when they are as little as she is, but it really works well I guess. He also said he sees cases as bad as hers at least once a day in his office! That surprises me how common it is! She didn't put up too much of a fuss about drinking all of the magnesium citrate, but it did take her about 2 hours to sit there and drink it, and A LOT of coaxing from us, including bribes of playing Candyland and getting to watch TV when she was done!! The Dr. wants to see her back for more X-Rays in 2 weeks to make sure the blockages are gone. Hopefully we can get this taken care of, then maybe her high fiber diet we give her will start kicking in on it's own.