Today has been a difficult day. My stomach is still in knots.
Drew has been complaining of stomach pain for a couple of months at least. What started out occasional got more and more frequent and the past week or so it has been multiple times a day. He wakes up, he says his stomach hurts. He eats, his stomach hurts. He rides in the car, his stomach hurts. At first we thought he was just imagining this, but Matt and I both realized it was real when he said, "okay," when we told him we needed to take him to the doctor.
Dr. Harrison listened to me and asked questions, and he asked Drew to point at where it was hurting. Drew pointed to his belly button area, and I can't express how much this meant to me but he didn't just consider my words, he read my face and addressed my biggest fear right off. He said most of the time the closer the pain is to your belly button, the less serious it is likely to be.
Then he started suggesting what it might be and ordered an X-ray. Drew did so well with the X-ray and the X-ray tech was wonderful with him. The results revealed lots of gas bubbles throughout his stomach. Dr. Harrison prescribed Zantac and told me that he expects this to help fairly quickly. He said if it doesn't help, he will send us to a GI specialist.
With Matt's and my family's history of cancer, you can imagine where my thoughts were when Drew's stomach pain continued to get worse and worse. And even though it appears that this is fairly simple to treat, I'm having trouble untying those knots in my stomach. I just want to hug Drew and not let go.
