Beverley Callard Shares Emotional Post-Surgery Struggles

has revealed she is sore, queasy and feeling emotional as she gave a heartbreaking update following her breast surgery.

Street actress, 68, revealed she is battling the disease earlier this month, after being diagnosed just after she'd relocated to Dublin to start her new job on Irish soap Fair City.

And now taking to X on Friday, the star opened up to her followers and became emotional as she revealed a heartfelt gift she received from a stranger.

Explaining it has been a week since her operation, Beverley said: 'I woke up this morning and I put on yesterday's clothes, which were dropped on the floor last night when I went to bed.

'I have not cleaned my teeth, I have not combed my hair. I cannot answer my phone because if someone says a kind word to me, I cry.

'I am sore, I am feeling absolutely rubbish today. And I have been like that all day. I am really tired, I keep feeling a bit queasy, and I have no idea why.

Beverley then revealed that she didn't want to post anything to her social media the day before because she was worried about making people feel 'miserable'.

She then showed some sweet presents, which included a heart-shaped cushion and a heartfelt card that had been sent in the post from a stranger.

Explaining that the cushion was to ease her pain under her arm, Beverley became emotional as she said she was going to regift it after using it.

Beverley's update comes after she revealed she 'cried like a baby' after her dressings were removed for the first time on Wednesday after surgery.

In an update on X, Beverley said she refused to let her devoted husband of 15 years Jon McEwan come into the appointment with her, despite him urging her: 'Please don't shut me out'.

She said: 'I had to do that by myself. I got there. I was really nervous and I sat there in the waiting room of the breast clinic. 

'I just looked around at the women in there. It went from all walks of life from a teenage to a little old lady. I just thought to myself, "we are so brave. This is amazing". Cancer touches everybody in some way.

'I just thought I can do this.'

Beverley said she was called into her appointment and had the dressing under her arm removed first, which revealed quite a large hemotoma. 

A hemotoma is a collection of clotted or partially clotted blood outside of blood vessels, often causing swelling, pain, and discoloration. 

Beverley said the consultant doesn't want to operate on it unless she has to, but will have to go to hospital next week to have surgery on it. 

She continued: 'As she came to change the dressing, I was feeling really strong and all ready for it, thinking about these incredible women.

'She took the dressing off and I looked down and saw myself for the first time and I just thought: "I can't do this". ' 

The actress said she told the nurse she couldn't look at herself in the mirror, despite being gently encouraged. 

'I went downstairs and out of the hospital. Jon was there waiting for me. I got in the car and cried my heart out like a baby. I wasn't strong at all then. I'd lost the whole lot. 

'I'm sure we all go through that. I did come home and I did look at myself and I did show Jon. I did get through it in the end. If anybody else is going through that part of it now, god love you. You can do this.' 

Beverley announced earlier this month she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had surgery shortly after.

While she reassured fans the cancer was caught early, she explained she would need to return home to Norfolk to undergo radiotherapy and surgery.

Beverley had her operation on Friday to remove two lymph nodes, as a precautionary measure to make sure that cancer had not spread.