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
Discovered she had colon cancer. the 37 year old travelled for more than four hours on public transport from kisumu county to meet gill. she was in considerable pain, having only had her colostomy operation one week before, but that s how important this is to her. do women in kenya feel embarrassed about fistula, about stoma ? women are very, very embarrassed, yeah. and then, we don t come out to talk about it. with me, i stayed with the fistula for four years and i did not talk to anybody. why don t you talk about it? hmm. 0k, we fear that if you talk about it, some will laugh, some will hate, some will run. so, hi, grace. my name is claire. i m one of the stoma nurses from the uk and i m here to see if we can help you and support you with your stoma care.
They get this life saving surgery. grace suffered a fistula in childbirth, then later discovered she had colon cancer. the 37 year old travelled for more than four hours on public transport from kisumu county to meet gill. she was in considerable pain, having only had her colostomy operation one week before. but that s how important this is to her. do women in kenya feel embarrassed about fistula, about stoma ? women are very, very embarrassed. yeah. and then, we don t come out to talk about it. with me, i stayed with the fistula for four years and i did not talk to anybody. why don t you talk about it? hmm. 0k, we fear that if you talk about it, some will laugh, some will hate, some will run. so, hi, grace.