times were tough for gill at first. she found it hard to manage her stoma, her mental health suffered, and she was no longer able to keep working as a police officer. gill also felt frustrated by the lack of support available to her. people didn't really know what to do with me. people kept saying, "you're really unique," which is not what you want to hear because you want you want to feel safe and looked after and that people know what they're doing. so i was sort of left really for years to try and sort it out myself. it sounds quite lonely. yeah, it was really lonely, yeah, it was really lonely. and the problem is when you have a baby and things go a bit wrong with your body, for a lot of people, there's a lot of shame about that. me personally, i've never had any shame about what happened to me because at the end of the day, it's not my fault. but nobody talks about the fact that things go wrong. so when i did come out in public, i was flooded with contact

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