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

I knew what was going on.

I knew what was coming.

And so that was really awful to know that that was coming and sort of have a vague recollection of how uncomfortable and how much pain I was in the ICU.

so yeah it's kind of like you take two steps forward and you take the quantum leap back it feels like and that's just in hospital and you get out and you've got to re-stretch all this new skin because I had it over pretty much all my major joints so you have to re-stretch all that skin which is about as pleasant as it sounds but yeah it is awful and I hope no one ever has to go through it So in that time

I mean, it got to the point where I just started to expect pain in everything.

So I guess my relationship with pain became...

I come to expect it in everything.

So they'd come to check my catheter and I'd expect to be in excruciating pain.

They'd check my feeding tube up my nose and it would pull on the stitch in my septum and I'd end up in pain.

And they'd take a lure out and I would have an absolute fit because I was expecting excruciating pain.

So I just came to expect pain.

And so one thing that I really struggled with when I left hospital was desperately avoiding anything that made me remotely uncomfortable and the fear of being in more pain because I was just sick of it.

I was sick of being in pain.

I was sick of being loaded up on medication to try and get through it.

I was sick of telling people, telling me to breathe slow, to breathe through it.

And it's like, you're not here.

You're not in this position.

Don't tell me to breathe slow.

It's quite funny.

Even now, the comments that people will say, and you're just like, oh, I know you're trying to help, but you're making things infinitely worse.

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