Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.

My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.

It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,

but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.

And because the team is such a diverse range of skills and strengths,

we have trained journalists, people who love digging through archives,

we've got drama and even comedy experts.

We really can do those stories justice.

So if you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds

where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK.

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There was a really bizarre moment, which was concreted in my mind.

I remember thinking a very specific thought that this is how I die and that's a shame.

That's Nile 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. Nile talks about his devastating

accident, which remarkably he survives. He speaks too in some detail about his surgery 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

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