Championing the Power of Play in Pediatric Palliative Care | Claire Hang | TEDxElmwood School Youth

Surrounded by darkness and faint sounds of a television, I held a young boy's hand, his face visible only by the light of his feeding pump as he drifted off to sleep. I remember his eyelids peacefully fluttering, occasionally smiling at me to check if I was still there with him. We had only met a few hours before.With hands outstretched from his wheelchair, he welcomed me. We filled our time laughing, immersing ourselves in story books and superheroes as he welcomed me into his world of imagination. While w ...