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

But yeah, I came to expect pain and everything.

And so that was one of the reasons I sort of shut down so much.

And I became quite a hermit was because I was so desperate to avoid anything uncomfortable and painful because I was just so sick of it.

In terms of coping mechanisms with pain, avoidance was probably my biggest one.

Yeah, other than that, it was part and parcel, unfortunately.

There was a lot of it I couldn't avoid.

As much as I begged the nurses not to turn me in bed, they were like, well, if we don't, then you're going to end up with pressure sores, which are going to be way worse than this, on top of what you're already going through.

So it was like, it's this brief moment of pure pain to avoid pain.

prolonged pain down the line so it was kind of I guess trying to put it in a realistic mind frame and just but then I also didn't really have a choice because they were like we're doing this with or without your consent because they were like it's for your better like it's for your um betterment my family would just be like we'll hold her down and so it was just it happened whether I wanted it to or not so

Yeah, I guess you just sort of had to try and reframe it in your brain.

And I guess it comes back to that your mind will be your biggest, your best weapon is that trying to reframe it is like, this sucks now, but it could be way worse if I let it get worse.

If I don't do this now, it's going to be worse.

And I guess, yeah, it's just that realistic sort of mindset of it's unavoidable and you just have to do it.

Yeah.

Well, it doesn't feel like it at the time.

Yeah, you're in week three and they're like, it'll get better.

And you're like, when?

Yeah, and it sucks because it's like you just start getting better and then you've got to have your second lot of grafting.

You're like, cool, so I'm starting from scratch hugging.

And so that was always pretty heartbreaking.

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