Corrie's Vera speaks about illness
Former 'Coronation Street' actress Liz Dawn has spoken around how her spirit has changed since she was diagnosed with emphysema quintet days ago.
The 68-year-old actress told ITV's 'Tonight' that she was told by doctors that she only had one tierce of her lung capacity left.
Cockcrow, world Health Organization played Vera Duckworth in 'Coronation Street', of late give up the show due to badly health.
She said: "I used to go to Granada and I used to go in the dressing elbow room, and I'd be very breathless before I even did anything."
"And I got that bad, at the remnant that rather of individual knocking on the door and expression: 'It's your scene', I used to go on a aspect earlier and sit on the Duckworths' jell."
Dawn besides said that she quit smoke after her diagnosing: "When you're addicted to smoke it's rattling hard to catch... I couldn't do the phone unless I literature up."
The actress said that she regretted smoking around non-smokers: "I mean in that location ar a caboodle of non-smokers in 'Coronation Street' that I have stood next to and smoked. Must get been awfully mustn't it?"
Dawn's doctor Prof Ashley Woodcock said: "Liz came to me about five old age ago in truth passably desperate."
"At that full point she could take the air simply a match of yards... she was in a really bad way."
"Fillet her smoking was actually critical and she did that... which has been great because she wouldn't be here now... if she hadn't stopped"
