Kelsey Waghorn

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553 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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How Do You Cope? · Kelsey Waghorn: 'There’s nothing quite like someone telling you, "you are normal"' · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

And probably if I had gone back, I maybe wouldn't have made it.

So, yeah, there was this disconnect between leaving the island and not have seen him and sort of thinking, well, I made it, so of course he's made it.

He trained me, of course he's made it.

So then getting into hospital and even in Whakatane Hospital when my family came in and I was asked me about Hayden.

They just kept changing the subject because by then they knew that he hadn't made it, but they didn't want to have that conversation with me while I was in the state that I was in, which was fair.

I was in a lot of medication and a lot of pain.

So they wanted me to focus on me, not sort of what else was happening because they didn't want it to sort of like exacerbate things, which was fair.

And I agree with their choice entirely.

Um, and then after the coma, I was still asking about Hayden and they just changed the subject, which was really easy to do because of the medications I was on.

I was very easy to distract.

Um, so when I did finally get told sort of, it was right before Christmas.

So it would have been maybe a few days after, um, Hayden's ceremony.

It still just felt like this big disconnect.

And even now, like he, um,

He went away to summer camps in America and so it was not abnormal for him to sort of not be around or sort of not hear from him for a week or so while he was working overseas.

a year like even a year it still just felt like he was just at a summer camp and we just hadn't heard from him so there was this massive disconnect sort of not being able to have that very formal goodbye and sort of like the line in the sand of like no this has happened this is how we're saying goodbye

Since then, have I had my own ceremonies?

Yes, sort of probably less formal in the sense that I've been back out to the island on boats a couple of times and we always pour a beer out for Hayden at the island.

yeah I don't know nothing sort of formal but yeah just little things like that where it's sort of like a token of like respect or just sort of like thinking of you and like day-to-day there's things that I'll do that I'm like oh I wish I could tell Hayden about this because he never would have assumed that I would do this so just like little things like that but yeah I guess there is a big sort of disconnect um not having been able to go to those

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