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Coronation Street, and, by extension, UK acting royalty Beverley Callard has continued to update fans on her journey as she bravely battles breast cancer.
Having returned home a day later than anticipated due to ‘minor complications’ with the surgery to remove lymph nodes, the actress behind Weatherfield matriarch Liz McDonald took to Instagram to talk about her experience, thanking the NHS staff that cared for her during her hospital stay and detailing the emotions she felt after the procedure.
‘I’m home. I was supposed to come home yesterday, but they decided to keep me in overnight. Minor complications,’ she began the video.
‘So I have been home for a couple of hours. I looked very pale, the nurses were calling me pale and passionate. I don’t know about passionate, but I am very pale,’ she joked.
‘I’m feeling okay. I had a bit of a cry as you do, but I am okay. Emotions are all over the place, you know which is you know… anyway, I won’t rant on about that. The staff at Norfolk And Norwich Hospital were truly amazing.’
Displaying a bag on her shoulder, Beverley explained the significance: ‘And wait for this, who needs Louis Vuitton? Josh, one of the nurses, his nan makes these to keep the drain bottle in, I won’t go any further than that.’
Beverley had earlier shared a video prior to the operation, discussing her thoughts and feelings as she waited in hospital.
‘Update for anyone else who is about to go through it. I’m at the hospital, it’s the big day, which I’m glad about. I’m ready, I’m strong, I feel fine.
‘There’s a few other ladies here with me, we’ve had a chat. They’ve been in and drawn all over me and then I have to go for an injection in an hour. I’m feeling OK.
‘Sometimes, you get these self-indulgent feelings and vanity but I’m not alone.
‘This other lady said she’s the same. I keep thinking, will I be lopsided? What will I wear? But I’m really good, I’m really strong and I’ll let you know how it goes.’
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A day after her return home, Beverley shared another video: ‘I just want to say I have got thousands and thousands of wonderful messages from you, all of you, and every single one is just beautiful and kind and loving and lots of your stories which I so appreciate,’ she began.
‘People who have been through this, people who are going through this, because there are many, many people going through it, and it’s good to know you’re not alone and that other people have the same fears that you’ve got.
‘Because sometimes you think, is it superficial that I’m worried what I look like or whatever? But no, we all seem to be worried about the same things, so that’s wonderful.
She then provided viewers with a further update on how she’s currently feeling: ‘I thought I’d give you a bit better update because yesterday I think maybe I was a little incoherent!
‘The first night, Friday, which was the day of the operation, I must say I was in great pain Friday night and I didn’t sleep at all, but today, first of all, I slept for 12 hours last night, which is unheard of for me!
‘So I had a really good sleep and I’m not in pain today at all. I’ve not taken any morphine today because I don’t react to it that well, it does make me feel a bit sick, but to be honest, I’ve not needed it.
‘Rather than being in pain, I’m more sore and I can cope with that, that’s fine. I’m black and blue and purple, which is not attractive, but I’m doing really well and I just wanted everybody to know that.
‘I have emotional moments but honestly I’m doing well I think mentally and physically I’m doing well and I will be in touch tomorrow.’
Beverley first revealed that she’d been diagnosed with cancer on RTÉ’s The Late Late Show, explained that she’d received the news ‘literally 15 to 20 minutes before’ she filmed her first scene for her new role in Irish soap Fair City.
Beverley will undergo radiotherapy following her operation, though she did detail that doctors caught her cancer in very early stages.
‘I’d had some tests just before I left the UK. I was in my dressing room at Fair City, getting ready to go on, and I was quite nervous and thinking, ‘I hope everybody thinks I’m all right, and my consultant rang me and said, ‘You’ve got to come back to the UK.’ I said, ‘Well I can’t possibly, I’ve just taken a new job, I’m away for a month’.’
‘I was diagnosed with breast cancer. But I’m fine. I’m absolutely fine. My head was a bit mashed for the first few days. It’s very early stages, and I’m along with, thousands of other women as well.’
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