[birds chirping] [doorbell ringing] (children) ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Won't you be my friend?♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Let's say it again.♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Won't you be my friend?♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Now you are my friend.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪H-E-L-L-O♪ ♪That's a word we all should know.♪ ♪H-E-L-L-O♪ ♪You can say it.♪ ♪Just say hello.♪ ♪♪♪ Hey!

There's Mr. Chuck!

Well, hello, friend!

Hello, Mr. Chuck!

[sniffing] Achoo!

Excuse me, please.

I think I've got a bit of a cold or something coming on.

I know I'm not feeling as well as I usually do, so I called the doctor's office for an appointment.

[sniffing] Would you like to come along, too?

Can you remember visiting the doctor's office?

Sometimes you have to go to the doctor when you're sick.

Other times you go to the doctor to get immunizations.

Or shots.

You know these immunizations can help keep you from getting really bad diseases.

Like hepatitis and polio.

I know when I was really young they had just started immunizing people against polio, and before that lots of people would get polio.

But now, now that the vaccine has been given for so many years, hardly anyone gets it anymore.

No one likes to get shots because they do hurt a little bit.

But when you consider how sick you can get when you don't get your shots, I tell you, it's worth it.

I know, it's hard to think about that when you're getting a shot, but believe me when I say immunizations are very important.

They are.

Looks like it's about time for me to go visit the doctor.

[coughing] Come along.

♪♪♪ [coughing] ♪♪♪ Hello!

Can I help you?

Hello, I'm Mr. Chuck and I'm here to see Dr. Martis.

Okay, could I get you to sign in please?

Sure.

♪♪♪ Thank you.

She'll be with you in just a moment.

Could I get you to have a seat?

Sure, thank you.

♪♪♪ Do you ever find it hard to wait?

Right now I have to wait until the doctor can see me.

Even though I know it's only going to be a few minutes it can seem like a lot longer.

What can you do when you have to wait?

Well, you might look at a book.

Or you might draw a picture.

When you go somewhere like a doctor's office, you know you can't take too many things.

But you might want to put some paper and a few crayons in your backpack to use while you're waiting.

Some doctor's offices even have toys for you to play with.

Mr. Chuck, the doctor will see you now.

Oh, yes.

Follow me.

♪♪♪ (nurse) Co me this way and we can get you we ighed.

Step right up here for me.

Okay, you can step down.

(nurse) Come on in here.

Have a seat up here and let up your sleeve so I can take your blood pressure.

Thank you.

Is this going to hurt?

No sir, it's not.

Relax your arm down.

Okay.

And now we're going to take your temperature.

♪♪♪ Alright.

The doctor will be in to see you.

Thank you very much.

I have to wait some more till the doctor is ready to see me.

Can you think of other times you've had to wait for something?

How about when you wait for your parents to pick you up from daycare?

Or have you ever had to wait for a bus?

Think about other things you've had to wait for.

What do you like to do when you have to wait?

Hello, Mr. Chuck.

Hello, doctor.

How are you today?

I'm fine.

The question is how are you today?

Well really, doctor, I'm not feeling very well.

I've got a sore, scratchy throat and my ears seem to be stopped up.

Okay, well let's have a look.

I'm going to look at your ears first.

Okay, now this won't hurt now.

But it might tickle just a little bit.

Now your other ear.

How can you tell, doctor, if I'm sick by looking in my ears.

Well, I see your eardrum and I see the bones behind your eardrum and those bones make your eardrums vibrate so that you can hear.

You can hear the dog bark, you can hear your mom calling you, you can hear your friends.

Well, how is looking in my ear going to find out if I'm sick?

Well I can find out if you're sick by looking at your ear because see there's a bright light that has to shine back at me when I look at it.

If that bright light doesn't shine back at me from your eardrum then that means that your ear is sick and infected.

Well, that's something.

Now let's have a look at your mouth, okay?

Now say, "Ahh."

Stick your tongue out.

Ahhh.

Good.

Good.

Now your throat doesn't look too bad.

I don't think that's that bad.

But I think we need to listen to your lungs next, though.

What is that called, doctor?

It's called a stethoscope.

Oh, and what does that do?

It allows me to be able to hear your heartbeat and to hear your lungs when you breathe.

So first let's listen to your heart.

Now if you sit up a little for me, I'm going to listen to your lungs.

Open your mouth and take a deep breath.

[inhaling and exhaling] One more time.

I don't hear anything, doctor.

Pardon?

I don't hear anything.

Yeah, you're not going to hear it, but with a stethoscope it allows me to hear everything inside.

You can hear it.

I can hear it as long as I put this in my ear.

Well how can you tell if I'm sick with that?

It makes all kinds of different noises, the lung does when it gets sick.

And the heart, it can skip beats and not beat normally and that'll let me know if something is wrong there.

I hope I'm alright.

Well, not that alright.

I think you have an ear infection in both of your ears.

Oh, what are you going to do to make me feel better?

I'm going to write a prescription for some antibiotics, but you have to take all the medicine for all of the days that they tell you to take it or else you won't feel any better.

What is an antibiotic, doctor?

An antibiotic is medication that fights bacteria.

And the bacteria cause infection.

Oh, it kills all the germs.

Kills all the germs that cause infection.

♪♪♪ Here you go, Mr. Chuck.

Here's your prescription.

Thank you, doctor.

And here's a little something for you.

Thank you.

Now you have to take care of yourself.

I feel better already.

Good.

We'll see you next time, okay?

Thank you very much, doctor.

Alright, bye-bye.

So long.

♪♪♪ Thanks a lot.

Good-bye now.

We'll see you next time.

♪♪♪ Well I feel better now that I've taken my medicine.

Let's play a game, okay?

It's called Get Off My Body, Bird.

You can play it, too.

Right now.

Just do what I do.

I think we've played it before, do you remember?

Well, just in case you don't remember, here's what you do.

Hook your thumbs together like this... ♪♪♪ That kind of looks like a bird, do esn't it?

Well, sort of.

Especially if you flap your fingers like this.

♪♪♪ Hey, that's the bird.

Can you make the bird fly around?

♪♪♪ Now you're going to let the bird fly around and land on... our shoulder.

♪♪♪ Did it land on your shoulder?

Well, let's tell it to get off.

Say this, "Get off my body, bird."

♪♪♪ And make the bird fly away.

♪♪♪ Okay, try it again.

Let's make our birds fly around and around and land on our knee.

♪♪♪ Did your bird land on your knee?

Well, what do we say?

We say, "Get off my body, bird."

And make the bird fly away.

♪♪♪ How about one more?

Let's get our little bird flying now.

Around it goes.

And it's going to land on my head.

♪♪♪ Oh!

Did it land on your head?

♪♪♪ What can we do?

Let's say it together.

Get off my body, bird!

♪♪♪ Oh, yes.

♪♪♪ I know, let's tell the bird to fly away.

Say it with me.

Fly away, bird!

Fly away, bird!

There he goes.

I think it's gone.

Ah, that was fun.

And you know, playing it helps us learn the different parts of our bodies.

Try playing it with your other friends sometimes.

(man) ♪Hey!

Hey!

Hey!♪ Hey, everybody, let's get ready fo r... ♪One, two, three four♪ ♪Everybody walk.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪Move your feet♪ ♪♪♪ ♪That's good.♪ ♪Now just do what the animals do.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪Move your head.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪Try this.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪Can you stand on one foot?♪ ♪♪♪ [duck quacking] ♪Now flap your wings and fly away.♪ This week we continue with the story of Awongalima.

Told by our friend Mrs. Isha.

Now this is a story of community.

Of sharing.

And of what can happen when people forget the importance of these things.

We also learn that everyone, no matter how small, can do important things to help their community.

Now, let's continue the story of Awongalima.

Boys and girls, you remember last time we were talking about the great party and how everything was nice?

Well, things changed with time.

And in time things do change.

And so do people.

But let's hope for the better.

Things were getting bad, and just like Miss Queenie predicted, people who used to be nice were really nasty now.

And people who used to be very forgiving had no patience.

They were just rude and when yes could have done just as well, you'd hear people say, "No!

It's not my problem."

And gangs were taking over and there was warfare and there was poverty and there was a thing called famine where there was not enough to eat and the earth itself started to change.

I mean, the seasons didn't know which way to go - when it should have been hot is was cold and when it should have been wet it was dry.

And things were just in a mess and the king said, "I think there must be a way to solve this problem."

"Someone must go and find Miss Queenie and help and get "the name of the tree and help this thing that's happening to us."

Now you know things had changed and nobody was willing.

Nobody was anxious to go.

But somebody remembered Bird.

Bird went the last time.

Bird had changed, too.

He had married, had several kids, but he had changed.

He wasn't the nice bird he used to be.

Yeah, Kingy, you woke me up.

I was fast asleep.

What do you want?

Bird, oh my you've changed.

I thought you might be willing to go and get the name of the tree.

Yeah, I'll go but it'll cost you money.

Money?

We have no money.

Well, I tell you, if you don't have money when I'm back, you won't get the name.

So Bird went and just like before he didn't stop to eat or drink.

But he had money on his mind.

Bird went, Miss Queenie gave him the name of the tree.

But instead of coming right back, Bird stopped at a farmer's strawberry patch and had his fill without asking.

Some people calledPP it stealin.

He went to the river and instead of thinking of his community and his family, he took a swim and drank till his heart's content and even took a nap.

Well, when he got back he had forgotten the name of the tree.

Everyone was glad to see him come though.

Yay, Bird!

[clapping] What's the name?

What's the name of the tree?

Oh, my he said to himself.

I never should have taken that nap.

The name of the tree is...Archiewawa.

Nothing happened.

He wasn't to be outdone; he tried again.

The name of this tree is...Owatoosie.

Nothing happened.

Well, Mrs. Bird and King Lion just fairly banished him from the entire environment.

But don't come down so hard on Bird.

Snake was asked to go.

Ssssnake was always snickering.

He went, got halfway there, met the prettiest little water moccasin you ever saw, fell in love, was engaged, courted a while, got married, had several little snakes and nobody ever heard from him again.

Owl was asked to go and owl said, "Who?

Who me?

Haha.

"Not on your life.

I'm not going.

Who me?

No, no, no.

"I have plenty of snakes and mice and little creepy crawlies "to eat.

I have no problem, you have a problem."

And it was that way.

Nobody wanted to go to help the community except a small one, not a very tall one.

Not a very pink one or a very purple one.

Rather a green one with spots and stripes.

You could hear her coming from the from the edge of the forest nearer and nearer.

People had to look all around and when they saw nothing at eye level they had to look at the ground.

And there was Nia, the turtle, whose name in some languages means purpose.

And she had a strong sense of purpose.

And boys and girls, tune in next week to see how Nia uses her strong sense of purpose.

♪♪♪ When a baby is born, he or she gets their first medical check up.

After that, it's up to parents to see that those check ups continue.

These check ups are important even if a baby seems healthy and well, because it's during these check ups that your healthcare provider checks to make sure the baby is growing normally, gives advice about care and feeding, answers your questions, and gives your baby tests and immunizations that will help him or her stay healthy.

And that's what we're going to talk about today here on Parent's Corner.

The importance of immunizations.

And our guest is Pasty McWherter.

Patsy is a registered nurse and is head of immunizations with the health department.

Glad to have you with us today.

Good morning.

I'm delighted to be here.

Many parents may not realize the importance of keeping up with a child's immunizations.

Can you tell us why it's so important to get babies immunized?

What are some of the diseases that are being prevented by immunization?

We offer routine childhood immunizations for protection against ten diseases: diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus, measles, mumps, red measles, and the German measles, chicken pox, polio, hib, Haemophilus influenzae type B which is protection against a very serious kind of meningitis, and also Hepatitis B.

So those are in the routine childhood immunization schedule.

What immunization schedule should parents follow?

I mean from the very beginning.

Immunization schedules can vary somewhat.

But generally it takes a minimum of four visits, sometimes five, some providers will divide the immunizations into five visits, for the child to be fully immunized by the age of two years.

Shots are routinely recommended at ages two, four, six and twelve months of age.

If they follow that schedule, they don't need any more immunizations or shots until they prepare to enter school.

Well, how important is it to keep the schedule?

I mean, if a series of shots is missed, what can happen?

If children are not up to date, they are vulnerable, they are at risk for contracting these very serious diseases.

These diseases can have permanent disabilities, they can result in deafness, a number of permanent disabilities, plus many diseases can actually be fatal.

So it's very important that parents have their children immunized on time.

If they miss a schedule, miss a date, then they should take their children in as soon as they have an opportunity.

And I'd like to emphasize that parents inquire at every health visit if their child's shots are up to date.

Can you suggest some ways parents can help góprepare gógówóchildreó gógóg]wó before tgógów?

Thergóe is no need to tell very young children about a visit to the physician or clinic for shots.

With an older child if they ask questions, answer them very truthfully.

I suppose if parents have questions about immunizations or other health related matters they can contact their physician or the health department in the city or county where they live.

Is that correct?

Absolutely.

And we would encourage parents to ask questions so that they are fully informed about what diseases their children are being protected against and what could happen if they're not protected.

Our guest today has been Patsy McWherter, a registered nurse and head of immunizations wówóó with the health department.

Thank you for being with us today and helping to bring us up to date on the importance of immunizations.

Thank you.

I'm delighted to have been here.

Well, that's all the time we have for today so good-bye for now friends.

And don't forget to stay healthy.

So long.

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