Inside Health: Life after my mountain accident

健康内部:山地事故后的生活

Discovery

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2025-01-07

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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 Mountain Rescue medic on what looked like an “unsurvivable” situation and Niall’s surgeon on fixing his “exploded” spine.
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  • Are you okay and recording?

  • Yeah.

  • Okay, I'm going to go.

  • Off I go.

  • There was a really bizarre moment which is concreted in my mind and I remember thinking very specific thought that this is how I die.

  • And that's a shame.

  • That's Niall McCann.

  • What you've just heard is him crashing into a mountain of 50 miles an hour.

  • The story you're about to listen to is not an easy one to hear.

  • Niall talks about his devastating accident, which remarkably, he survives.

  • He speaks too, in some detail about his surgery and and recovery.

  • We hear how he learns to cope with and sometimes even laugh about the very serious injuries that have changed his life.

  • I'm going to embrace the fact that I have bladder incontinence and bowel incontinence and sexual dysfunction because I can.

  • And I really hope that other people feel that that gives them the permission to embrace it too.