Corrie’s Tracy Shaw reveals she’s completed first day of chemotherapy as she gives health update amid cancer battle

CORONATION Street star Tracy Shaw shared a fresh health update after she completed her first day of chemotherapy.

The actress, who played Maxine Peacock in the ITV soap, revealed to fans that she was battling breast cancer last month.

Tracy told fans that she was preparing to undergo chemotherapy and decided to cut off her hair and donate it to charity.

On Wednesday, Tracy shared a new Instagram clip and said she had spent over eight hours at her first chemo session.

She 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.

“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.”

Last week, Tracy cut her hair off so she could donate them to children’s charity, The Little Princess Trust.

And yesterday the former soap star has now given fans a glimpse of her new wig as she prepares for chemotherapy.

Tracy shared a smiling photo alongside her Macmillan nurse on Tuesday as she shared some advice to those also going through the same.

The TV star then shared a snap of her wearing a short blonde wig.

She wrote over it: “First reaction to wearing a wig.”

Tracy has kept her fans up to date on her cancer journey, and last week week shared an emotional video revealing the toll it was taking on her.

But the star has been powering on and shared the emotional moment she had her hair cut off to donate to charity.

It is one of the largest charity funders of childhood cancer research in the UK and provides wigs to children who have lost their hair while battling the disease.

In the video, Tracy had her hair plaited into sections before being cut off, with the actress holding them in her hands before the stylist got to work on her new short crop.

She captioned the video: “Hair will donated to little princess trust.
Another step on this breast cancer journey.

“Goodbye for now crazy hair. Before chemo takes you away completely, I will enjoy what’s left for now.”

In her previous video, Tracy became emotional as she said: “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.”