Bladder, bowels and sex: Learning to live after my mountain accident
Niall McCann on how heβs learnt to deal with the unexpected β and sometimes inconvenient β ways his spinal cord injury has changed his life.
In 2016, Niall McCann was left with a bruised spinal cord when he crashed his speed glider into the side of a mountain at 50mph.
He shares his journey to recovery and some unexpected life lessons he has had to navigate, from soiling himself in inconvenient places and not being able to control his flatulence, to having to re-learn how to have sex again.
We also hear from a Brecon Mountain Rescue medic on what looked like an βunsurvivableβ situation and Niallβs surgeon on fixing his βexplodedβ spine.
Presenter: Smitha Mundasad
Producer: Gerry Holt
Editor: Holly Squire
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