Rest in Peace Tristan Pallen.
Wednesday afternoon, Tristan Pallen passed away while being operated on. Tristan is was a nine year old little boy that I worked with for just over a year while I lived at home. His grandmother and my Nanny were great friends and Colette lives two houses down from home. It was actually through the grandmothers that I received the interview for the Special Needs Contract. What a remarkable litte boy that Tristan was. Always eager to see me and really upset when I couldnt make our twice a week visits.
It was working with him that really opened my eyes to special education. It was through working with the support network that Tristan his family had, gave me hope for shaping the future of special education and that I could be a pivitol part of not only his development, but others too. I was his special needs worker. He had many specialists including: speech, occupational therapist (that worked on fine motor skills), physical therapist(gross motor skills), teacher, teaching assistant and many doctors. My role was to get instruction from the specialists and get Tristan to the goals they set for. From the minimal examples I was given in the beginning, I started developing my own ways that were geared along the same lines. I came up with games, activities, crafts and outside fun. That little boy definitly came into my life for a reason.
When Tristan was born he had a hole in his heart. His first open heart surgery was at 11 weeks. He was featured on CHEO Tiny Hearts back when I first started working with him. I believe in total he had 3 open heart and many other heart repair surgeries in his 9 young years of life. On Wednesday, he was having his ventricles dialated and one burst...I guess that was the end. Both of his parents are very strong people. Nicole just took everything in stride and devoted her life to Tristan and his surviving twin brother, Jared. Jared is Tristan's fraternal twin, with no medical issues. If he kept with pace from when I was there, he is above average in reading and math.
Although I hadn't seen Tristan in a while, I thought of him often, gave that job as a reference and missed working with him every day. I almost didnt move to Kingston because I wanted to stay working with him.
My heart, prayers and thoughts are with the Pallen family tonight, especially Jared. He is certainly in his best form now, free from the hospitals, tests and doctors. Free from the limitations that his illness brought him.
Wednesday afternoon, Tristan Pallen passed away while being operated on. Tristan is was a nine year old little boy that I worked with for just over a year while I lived at home. His grandmother and my Nanny were great friends and Colette lives two houses down from home. It was actually through the grandmothers that I received the interview for the Special Needs Contract. What a remarkable litte boy that Tristan was. Always eager to see me and really upset when I couldnt make our twice a week visits.
It was working with him that really opened my eyes to special education. It was through working with the support network that Tristan his family had, gave me hope for shaping the future of special education and that I could be a pivitol part of not only his development, but others too. I was his special needs worker. He had many specialists including: speech, occupational therapist (that worked on fine motor skills), physical therapist(gross motor skills), teacher, teaching assistant and many doctors. My role was to get instruction from the specialists and get Tristan to the goals they set for. From the minimal examples I was given in the beginning, I started developing my own ways that were geared along the same lines. I came up with games, activities, crafts and outside fun. That little boy definitly came into my life for a reason.
When Tristan was born he had a hole in his heart. His first open heart surgery was at 11 weeks. He was featured on CHEO Tiny Hearts back when I first started working with him. I believe in total he had 3 open heart and many other heart repair surgeries in his 9 young years of life. On Wednesday, he was having his ventricles dialated and one burst...I guess that was the end. Both of his parents are very strong people. Nicole just took everything in stride and devoted her life to Tristan and his surviving twin brother, Jared. Jared is Tristan's fraternal twin, with no medical issues. If he kept with pace from when I was there, he is above average in reading and math.
Although I hadn't seen Tristan in a while, I thought of him often, gave that job as a reference and missed working with him every day. I almost didnt move to Kingston because I wanted to stay working with him.
My heart, prayers and thoughts are with the Pallen family tonight, especially Jared. He is certainly in his best form now, free from the hospitals, tests and doctors. Free from the limitations that his illness brought him.
posted by Amanda | 6:12 AM
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Another angel called up to Heaven too soon.
Que l'âme du fidèle défunt repose en paix, par la miséricorde de Dieu.
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