Issue 3

Text Box: Peter’s Big Day There comes a time in every panda’s life when want and desires are replaced with things you have to do and today was that type of event. Peter wasn’t feeling well. He felt like his tummy was a ship rocking up and down on stormy waters. His Mom and Dad took him to the Children’s Hospital to see Dr. Buccaneer. The doctor found a tiny tree branch was making Peter’s tummy feel yucky. Peter and his Panda parents asked, “ What happens if you have a tree branch stuck in your tummy?” “ We need to send you to the Panda Bear Clinic to get the branch out,” said the nurse. “What’s that?,” the Panda family asked all together. Peter nervously looked around the room and pictured a Panda Bear Clinic where all the Panda Bears look just like him. “I may get lost in the crowd,” he worried. With a soothing smile the nurse explained that Panda Bear Clinics are where panda bears and kids go when they don’t feel well . “It is a neat place where children are special and nurses assist doctors in making everybody feel happy. They may be in a hospital, at your doctor’s office or even at your school. “ “Panda Bear Clinics have all the important things Panda’s need to get better. There are Band-Aids, tubes for special water, and cups for Panda bears and kids to have flavored juice. Will it be yummy in my tummy Peter laughed? Yes it will be and there will be Panda Bear toys for you to play with, “ continued the nurse. “Wow!” Peter exclaimed getting excited. “You will sail on your bed to meet Dr. Buccaneer through magical doors that open and close all by themselves. It will be just like an exciting pirate dream. “ “But I don’t have any pirate clothes!” worried Peter. “When you, your nurse friends, and your parents go into a special room with Dr. Buccaneer, you will wear a

Text Box: Dear Kids and Colleagues, Peter the Peteeatrick Panda TM goes on a journey into the unknown sort of like a pirate adventure. Peter discovers his body is just like a treasure chest filled with riches. But when objects besides jewels and gold get into your treasure chest you can feel sick. Sometimes a doctor needs to be like a buccaneer with a good pirate sense to protect the gold inside the body from an outside source. In this issue Peter the Peteeatrick PandaTM is headed straight toward a pirate operation adventure and will learn what it is like to be a peteeatrick patient. Land Ho!!!!!!

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: Peter’s Big Day List Your Treasures New World of Words

Text Box: Dr. Buccaneer and the nurses will be wearing special cover-ups, even masks too. There are lights and tools to help Dr. Buccaneer protect your treasures inside your body. “Everyone will wear a mask. Your mask will help you go to dreamland so you can help Dr. Buccaneer find the stick and protect your treasure. To keep you from getting hungry, you have super water in a bag going through a tube to your arm.” “Dr. Buccaneer might ask you to count backwards 5,4,3,2,1, you will get real sleepy and go under his spell.” “Dr. Buccaneer will fix your treasure chest with funny stitches while you’re sleeping that look like your Mom’s sewing. They will come

Text Box: out when you are all better.” “Dr. Buccaneer, the nurses, and Panda Mom and Dad will make sure you wake up and feel okay. You might still have the tube and bag with the super water until you feel awake enough to eat, drink and go home. You may have to drink some pirate happy brew to feel better. “Will my treasures inside my tummy be safe? Will the pirate story have a happy ending?” Peter asked. But the nurse kept talking, “Please remember to tell everyone what you are feeling. You might have a stomach ache or just not feel good. This is okay. You have to tell all the pirates on the

Text Box: treasure hunt if you feel good or bad. You can also ask questions if you are worried or don’t understand. You can always ask questions on a treasure hunt.” “ When you are awake and feel good friends will come to see you, and you will get lots presents.” Peter liked the idea of getting presents and seeing his friends. “ Finally your special journey will be over and you return to your home port again with the nurses as their special pandystripper.” “So it will have a HAPPY ENDING!!!!” Peter exclaimed. And the nurse smiled, “Yes, it will have a HAPPY ENDING.” Next Issue: Peter’s “Re-

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Your body is a treasure chest on a pirate ship. What treasurers would you find inside your body that make it special and that you need to protect ? Take out your panda-pen and make a list.

For example, you might have your HEART in your treasure chest.

Play A Panda Game

New World of Words and what they mean:

Operation: When doctors go into your body to make you healthy.

Stitches: Using special thread to keep a boo-boo closed.

Treasure: Something that is very special and means a lot, like jewels.

Buccaneer: A pirate.

Peter the Peteeatrick Panda™ is created and written by

Marc O’Brien

Marc O’Brien can be contacted at

marcobrien30@embarqmail.com

Illustrated by

Catherine Wicks

Edited by

Jana Refowitz

Technical Advisor

Daniele M Dominguez, RN Pediatrics

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