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Coronation Street star Beverley Callard was left unable to walk after a hip operation ended in disaster.
Beverley, who plays legendary character Liz McDonald, says the operation led to her sudden disappearance from the soap.
Now the 63-year-old is set to sue the hospital that carried out the surgery.
After a second opinion from another doctor, she believes the minor keyhole surgery, which led to a full hip replacement, should never have taken place.
Bev thought she would have to install a stairlift in her home and be wheelchair bound for life - reports Mirror Online.
She said: "I have been gone because it has been the worst six months of my life, I have been in the most excruciating pain you can imagine – like teeth grinding inside my hip.
“But worse than that was the mental torture of thinking ‘is this the end for me
“A huge part of me thought I’d never be able to return to Coronation Street – that I wouldn’t even walk again.
“ Liz is famous for mini skirts, stockings and high heels shoes. Not crutches and a mobility scooter. I thought I wouldn’t be able to do my job any more.
“That is how bad it has been. There was definite doubt over whether I would walk again.
“I was in a state of shock and pain for four months. It has been absolute hell.”
Bev went into a hospital for what she thought would be a routine keyhole surgery op on March 12.
She was due to return to the filming on the cobbles two weeks after the procedure.
She said: “I’d had a niggle in my hip, in my groin on the right side, at the beginning of March I went to my GP as it had been going on a while.
“He said he thought I had an easily remedied soft tissue tear in inside my hip.
“I saw a consultant a few days later who did scans and said it needed a minor operation in mid-March as a day patient.
“I had the procedure and the nurse said afterwards it went really well.”
But three days later, Bev’s hip pain started to get worse – and by the time she went to have her stitches out a week later she was in agony.
It was then she claims her consultant dropped a bombshell.
She said: “He said, ‘well Beverley, I have to tell you your operation really didn’t go very well at all’.
“He said when he got inside the hip it crumbled and I needed further operations.
“I was numb. I couldn’t take it in. I asked what next and he said it would be urgent but because of Covid-19 things were up in the air.
Liz Macdonald (Image: ITV)
“I went home and over the following weeks the pain just got worse and worse despite painkillers they gave me. I couldn’t stand.
“If I moved my right leg in any direction, the pain was indescribable. It was a burning and shooting pain up and down my leg.
“My muscles would twitch, I could see them doing it. I couldn’t get comfortable seated, standing, laying. I couldn’t sleep.
“I was in tears for many days and believe me, I’m not a wuss. My dentist thinks I’m really tough, so does my GP. But this just floored me. I saw no way out.
“When I had a hysterectomy I was back in the gym 13 days later. This is the worst pain I’ve ever experienced.
"I had absolutely no control over my body – there was nothing I could do to get better. I felt helpless and so did my husband Jon.
Corrie's Beverley Callard unable to walk after hip op disaster
Beverley who plays Liz McDonald has been unable to return to the Corrie set
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Beverley, who plays legendary character Liz McDonald, says the operation led to her sudden disappearance from the soap.
Now the 63-year-old is set to sue the hospital that carried out the surgery.
After a second opinion from another doctor, she believes the minor keyhole surgery, which led to a full hip replacement, should never have taken place.
Bev thought she would have to install a stairlift in her home and be wheelchair bound for life - reports Mirror Online.
She said: "I have been gone because it has been the worst six months of my life, I have been in the most excruciating pain you can imagine – like teeth grinding inside my hip.
“But worse than that was the mental torture of thinking ‘is this the end for me
“A huge part of me thought I’d never be able to return to Coronation Street – that I wouldn’t even walk again.
“ Liz is famous for mini skirts, stockings and high heels shoes. Not crutches and a mobility scooter. I thought I wouldn’t be able to do my job any more.
“That is how bad it has been. There was definite doubt over whether I would walk again.
“I was in a state of shock and pain for four months. It has been absolute hell.”
Bev went into a hospital for what she thought would be a routine keyhole surgery op on March 12.
She was due to return to the filming on the cobbles two weeks after the procedure.
She said: “I’d had a niggle in my hip, in my groin on the right side, at the beginning of March I went to my GP as it had been going on a while.
“He said he thought I had an easily remedied soft tissue tear in inside my hip.
“I saw a consultant a few days later who did scans and said it needed a minor operation in mid-March as a day patient.
“I had the procedure and the nurse said afterwards it went really well.”
But three days later, Bev’s hip pain started to get worse – and by the time she went to have her stitches out a week later she was in agony.
It was then she claims her consultant dropped a bombshell.
She said: “He said, ‘well Beverley, I have to tell you your operation really didn’t go very well at all’.
“He said when he got inside the hip it crumbled and I needed further operations.
“I was numb. I couldn’t take it in. I asked what next and he said it would be urgent but because of Covid-19 things were up in the air.
Liz Macdonald (Image: ITV)
“I went home and over the following weeks the pain just got worse and worse despite painkillers they gave me. I couldn’t stand.
“If I moved my right leg in any direction, the pain was indescribable. It was a burning and shooting pain up and down my leg.
“My muscles would twitch, I could see them doing it. I couldn’t get comfortable seated, standing, laying. I couldn’t sleep.
“I was in tears for many days and believe me, I’m not a wuss. My dentist thinks I’m really tough, so does my GP. But this just floored me. I saw no way out.
“When I had a hysterectomy I was back in the gym 13 days later. This is the worst pain I’ve ever experienced.
"I had absolutely no control over my body – there was nothing I could do to get better. I felt helpless and so did my husband Jon.
