Text Box: Operating Without A Net One day while fooling around in the trees in The Patch of Green, Peter, a little, furry, black and white animal stuffed with love, slipped on a branch and DOWN he went to the ground. “Crack! Crack!” went the branches, then a loud “THUD!!!!” Just as fast as he fell, a big whirring thing with flashing lights drove up and two people called pandamedics whisked him away... The pandamedics were smiling and kind.......but Peter was scared!!! In this exciting pandatmosphere Peter realized he was taking his first ride in a pandamobile that human people call an ambulance. While the noisy pandamobile, with two big black lights in the front that looked like sunglasses, made its way down the street the pandamedics talked to Peter about the accident he just had. "It's okay," they said, "Just tell the nurse the truth about what happened and how you feel when we get to the hospital." When Peter arrived at the hospital he had a pain in his paw. The nurse helped him from the pandamobile with the sunglasses to a chair with big wheels like his pandacycle. The nurses called it a “wheel chair”. When he entered the emergency room the nurses looked at him quizzically. "What happened to your paw?” they asked. “I was fooling around in the trees and slipped," Peter told the nurse with an honest smile, "and I fell all the way to the ground with a THUD." Of course, the nurses wanted to talk to Peter, just like a mother and father, about fooling around in trees, but they quickly changed the subject to fixing his paw. A big machine like a camera took pictures of Peter's paw. The pictures were funny, black and white not like a panda camera... the nurses called them x-rays. Turn over to keep reading! Text Box: Colleagues and Kids, Welcome to Peter the Peteeatrick Panda's™ Playground. This newsletter is for kids in the hospital or visiting a physician's office. It will be a series of short stories about a panda who lives at the nurses' station. He is a “pandystriper “ who teaches and entertains kids. Peter’s adventures provide lessons for a lifetime. Tickle your sense of humor. Enjoy, laugh, and share with your pediatric patients. Text Box: A Security Blanket of Make Believe Text Box: Volume 1, Issue 1 January 2007 Wave: Peter is not an ordinary type of being. His extraordinary antics and humor will help you feel warm and cozy. Your Mom, Dad, and Nurse may enjoy these stories with you. Rounded Rectangle: In this issue: Operating Without A Net Panda Word Game New Words

Text Box: While Peter was waiting for the doctor to come in and help him, the unpredictable panda noticed chocolate on top of a cabinet filled with papers. Peter loves chocolate! Within seconds, when the nurse turned her head, he quietly jumped up and started to climb the cabinet using his good paw. While hanging onto one of the handles with his healthy paw he felt the drawer start to open and all the information and candy started falling out. Pandemonium!!! He reached out and grabbed a paw full of candy, shoving it into his mouth. The nurse caught him and Text Box: protected him from falling....His paws and face were covered with chocolate! Well, it must have been Peter's lucky day. He was in the arms of a sweet nurse and his belly was full of chocolate when he was told his paw was not broken. Peter felt pandariffic with the good news! At that moment, all the nurses huddled together and came up with an idea. "You know if you stay in The Patch of Green you are going to get hurt again. Would you like to stay here on pediatrics to tell funny stories to the kids and help the nurses?” One of the Text Box: nurses laughed and said, “You can be our own Peteeatrick Panda™, a pandystriper that makes all the kids laugh. You can teach us all how to have fun and learn at the same time.” Peter rubbed his paw and then rubbed his full belly...it sounded like a good idea to him. Text Box: Operating Without a Net continued Text Box: Page #Text Box: Peter the Peteeatrick Panda’s™ Playground $Account.OrganizationName

Peter the Peteeatrick Panda™ is created by Marc O’Brien. 

He can be contacted at

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Take out a pandapen and write an answer to the question you like best!

1) Peter the Peteeatrick Panda eats peas, pickles, ice cream, pancakes and chocolate.

Which words do NOT begin with the letter P?

Which foods are Peter’s favorite?

2) A pandystriper is a fuzzy, lovable, imaginary animal that lives in the nurses’ station. 

What does the word “imaginary” mean to you?

Play A Panda Word Game! 

New Words and What They Mean

Pandemonium: loud disorder

Pain: the feeling of something hurting

Hospital: a place where doctors and nurses help you feel better

Ambulance: a special car that gets you to the hospital quickly

X-ray: a black and white picture of the inside of your body

(It sees through your skin!)
Keep thinking and dreaming.

Peter the Panda Illustrations by

Catherine Wicks

 

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