Today our SONG TO CHEW is called A FRIEND LIKE ME, from my 'In The Hospital' album.  The idea came from two nurses at Seattle Children's Hospital, Diane Grimm Gates and Penny Pefley.  I asked my buddy Bill Harley to join us, and we won a Parent's Choice BEST CHILDREN'S ALBUM award that year.  We included a booklet full of helpful notes about how the songs and stories help school-age kids and families who spend time in a hospital.  I visit Bill, and we exaggerate some of our scary concerns by 'enlarging them' to be much bigger than possible.  Our silliness minimizes the 'hospital fears', and the laughter creates a balance for the loss of control a child feels being away from home and school.  The importance of a patient's affective state has only recently been recognized by traditional allopathic medicine as being a critical factor in people's ability to recover.  This album has helped tens of thousands of children and families over the last 33 years.  A BIG 'Thanks!' to Bill, Penny and Diane for their wonderful work , and thanks to you for listening!  If you have any ideas about how we can get this album into more hospitals and to kids and families who need it, please get in touch with me.  I’m Peter Alsop.  I’ll be back next week with another ‘Song to Chew’.  Bye for now! 
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