not to have any shame. i i can do anything. cheering gill castle was so severely injured in childbirth in october 2011 that she had to have a colostomy operation. she d suffered a fistula a hole between her rectum and hervagina and a fourth degree tear which couldn t be repaired. so she had to have her bowel diverted out onto her abdomen, creating a permanent stoma. knowing how hard it was to come to terms with this massive life change, she wanted to let others see it couldn t stop herfrom doing anything. when i first had my stoma surgery, i was told, no, you can t do that to a lot of things. but my attitude is, well, why not? nothing ventured, nothing gained. i don t want to dwell all the time on what happened in the past. i also want to show people what s possible moving forward. screams morning, everybody! here we are at ben nevis. and that s really important, to give people hope, i think. good morning, happy campers! and throughout the winter of 2020, gill did jus
i was, gosh, with a colostomy bag, swimming, enjoying life? i said, yes, i can. i ve learnt to be confident, not to have any shame. i i can do anything. cheering gill castle was so severely injured in childbirth in october 2011 that she had to have a colostomy operation. she d suffered a fistula a hole between her rectum and hervagina and a fourth degree tear which couldn t be repaired. so she had to have her bowel diverted out onto her abdomen, creating a permanent stoma. knowing how hard it was to come to terms with this massive life change, she wanted to let others see it couldn t stop herfrom doing anything. when i first had my stoma surgery, i was told, no, you can t do that to a lot of things. but my attitude is, well, why not? nothing ventured, nothing gained. shivers i don t want to dwell all the time on what happened in the past. i also want to show people what s possible moving forward. screams morning, everybody! here we are at ben nevis. and that s rea
I have to talk. i m going to talk about it. for other women to know they have to live a normal life like any other woman. i feel my future will be bright. yeah. what s changed for you this week? i ve learned to be confident, not to have any shame, - that i can bathe. i can be the same like my friends. l i can do swimming. i can ride a bicycle. i can do anything. when i came and i heard the story of gill, it really changed my life. it changed my mind. i started enjoying life. i became happy. bila siri, bila aibu. make somebody else to heal. cheering at the end of the week,
With a stoma? and i was like, well, yeah. they literally went, hallelujah! you know? like, there was a massive cheer, and they were all clapping and cheering and, erm. sexual relationships, intimate relationships are a huge part of people s lives, especially in this kenyan culture. and tapping into the culture here to help the women to help themselves was what this week has been all about. so gill has coined the phrase. no secrecy, no shame. and it translates toi bila siri, bila aibu. very good. and the ladies this week have just absolutely ran with it. - i m going to create more awareness and i m going to tell them that this thing is for anybody. i ve met gill from england who has colostomy, and her life is normal. applause
The women celebrated graduating from the course. but this is by no means the end of the work for the chameleon buddies. so where do you see the future for the charity now? next year, we re going to bring four stoma nurses with us, hopefully a continence nurse. eventually, what i would really like to do is fund an actual stoma nurse here at the hospital. we want one of the nurses here to train up to be a stoma nurse specialist. that s ultimately what we would like. and so we don t need our nurses coming over. that s, like, my ultimate dream. and it s going to happen. it s definitely going to happen. i believe it when you say it. it will, yeah. it will happen. all: bila siri, bila aibu! cheering