Actress Tracy Shaw has issued an update (Image: Instagram)
Coronation Street actress Tracy Shaw, who played Maxine Peacock in the ITV soap, told her followers last month that she had been battling breast cancer. Weeks later, she has issued an update after completing her first day of chemotherapy as she explained to fans that she would be cutting off all her hair and donating it to charity. As she shared an video on Instagram, she told her followers that she had spent over eight hours at her first session.
The actress said: “First day of chemo done. I’m feeling alright but that has a great amount to do with the steroids which are helping my body fight the chemo that has gone in. So I went in today to start at 9am and I left at 5:30pm, very hot day and there was a bit of delay.”
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She showed herself having her hair cut off (Image: tracy.k.shaw/Instagram)
She added: “Basically with my chemo injection, one of which hadn’t arrived, it’s got nothing to do with robots or anything to do with the hospital team, it was the medics delivery, so yeah that was the delay. But I’m feeling really positive but everything I keep eating tastes horrible.
“Everything tastes of metal, just like you told me, and every now and again I feel like the Incredible Hulk, I want to start moving furniture around, the dogs keeping away from me because they sense that.”
It comes shortly after she chopped her hair to donate it to The Little Princess Trust and has now been out shopping for a new wig.
She shared clips online of her trying on the various different wigs and showing them off as she was supported by a Macmillan nurse who also issued advice to people going through a similar experience.
Earlier this month Tracy opened up about the emotional challenges she’s been facing, telling her followers: “Each morning I wake up and know that I have to go into hospital and receive more news, which has been going on for a long time, that unknown… I just think, ‘I can’t go through with this anymore,’ but I’ve not even started my journey.”
She’s had an influx of support online from her followers as she’s shared updates on every step of her journey, with a lot of Tracy’s recent posts focusing on how waking up is a “gift” each day.
