<p>Today you’re going to meet the awesome Gill Castle (you’ll understand the significance of the ‘awesome’ once you listen to this conversation!</p><p>Gill describes herself as a very ordinary person and Police Officer before the birth of her son in 2011 changed her life. </p><p>His premature birth left her with traumatic injuries, the full extent of which weren’t identified by doctors for 5 days. Those injuries included a fistula, a hole in the wall between her rectum and vagina that left her with faecal incontinence and needing to use a stoma bag (a colostomy bag) for the rest of her life.</p><p>A very long physical and mental recovery followed.</p><p>Then one day she read an article - she’ll tell you about it in this conversation - that changed the trajectory of her life. And the rest, as they say, is history.</p><p>Since then, she’s done triathlons, scuba dived, skydived, sea kayaked and taken up ocean swimming.</p><p>And now she’s training for her next challenge: 5 years ago Gill couldn’t swim in the ocean without opening her eyes and now she’s training to swim across the English Channel!</p><p>You might be tempted to call her an inspiration, but she actually hates that term. She describes herself as the most ordinary person who just had a life-changing experience that has made her appreciate everything and want to try everything. </p><p>And she will leave you wanting to do the same.</p>

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Jen Brown

#177: Gill Castle on Stoma Bags & Swimming the Channel

SEP 19, 202571 MIN
Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

#177: Gill Castle on Stoma Bags & Swimming the Channel

SEP 19, 202571 MIN

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<p>Today you’re going to meet the awesome Gill Castle (you’ll understand the significance of the ‘awesome’ once you listen to this conversation!</p><p>Gill describes herself as a very ordinary person and Police Officer before the birth of her son in 2011 changed her life. </p><p>His premature birth left her with traumatic injuries, the full extent of which weren’t identified by doctors for 5 days. Those injuries included a fistula, a hole in the wall between her rectum and vagina that left her with faecal incontinence and needing to use a stoma bag (a colostomy bag) for the rest of her life.</p><p>A very long physical and mental recovery followed.</p><p>Then one day she read an article - she’ll tell you about it in this conversation - that changed the trajectory of her life. And the rest, as they say, is history.</p><p>Since then, she’s done triathlons, scuba dived, skydived, sea kayaked and taken up ocean swimming.</p><p>And now she’s training for her next challenge: 5 years ago Gill couldn’t swim in the ocean without opening her eyes and now she’s training to swim across the English Channel!</p><p>You might be tempted to call her an inspiration, but she actually hates that term. She describes herself as the most ordinary person who just had a life-changing experience that has made her appreciate everything and want to try everything. </p><p>And she will leave you wanting to do the same.</p>