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
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 just that, taking on her bikini challenge
She speaks mainly a tribal language and her swahili is limited but her distress at what has happened to her is clear. it is hard to comprehend the trauma she s experienced but sesita told us she wanted to speak so that others can understand the help needed here. when you hear really heartbreaking stories like sesita, how do you balance out that trauma with the joy, really? that is very difficult because, of course, culturally, life is very different here as well. what we ve got to focus on is we are making her life better. we re enabling her to move on from that trauma. i met her last year, just after her stoma surgery. she was on the ward. she was lying in bed, she had her sister there, translating, and i went in and said to her, i ve got a stoma, just like you.
Sesita, like many young women from poor rural areas, is uneducated. she speaks mainly a tribal language and her swahili is limited but her distress at what has happened to her is clear. it is hard to comprehend the trauma she s experienced but sesita told us she wanted to speak so that others can understand the help needed here. when you hear really heartbreaking stories like sesita, how do you balance out that trauma with the joy, really? that is very difficult because, of course, culturally, life is very different here as well. what we ve got to focus on is we are making her life better. we re enabling her to move on from that trauma. i met her last year, just after her stoma surgery.