Tracy Shaw Shares First Day of Chemo Update

Tracy Shaw has revealed she has completed her 'first day of chemotherapy' on Thursday after being diagnosed with breast . 

The actress, 52, was diagnosed with the disease last month and shared a new video update on Instagram revealing she has had chemo from 9am until 5.30pm. 

The former star said she is 'feeling really positive' but explained that everything she 'eats tastes horrible'. 

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 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.'

Tracy concluded by thanking the NHS and sending love to other people fighting the disease.

She added: 'So what I want to say the most is that I want to send everyone love who has started chemo, to those starting chemo tomorrow or done chemo and or is in this process with me I send love and courage. 

'And I found it ok today, the nurses are amazing and everyone who works there I just don't know how they do it every day, they are obviously angels to have that patience with what I would call one of the most extreme jobs to do and yet they don't get paid for that in the way that they should do. 

'So let's big up the NHS everyone.'

Last week, Tracy broke down in tears in an emotional video, as she revealed to her followers that she was set to start chemotherapy for breast cancer.

In a video posted on Instagram, Tracy shared the toll her cancer diagnosis has had on her, admitting: 'I can't go through this anymore.'

She previously played Maxine Peacock on Corrie from 1995 to 2003, before she was sensationally murdered by serial killer Richard Hillman.

In the video, Tracy said: 'I'm just going to be me, and my truth is… by the way, I've not shaved my hair off, I've just put a scarf on just because I've not done anything with it and I'm going to hospital.

'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.

'I've had a good cry. I'll go in later today and I'll meet some other ladies who will start the treatment with me – chemo.

'And I'll find out the date. 50 per cent of me wants to get going. I want to know that it's being shrunk and the cancer is being dealt with.

'When I wake up and I've got really bad headaches or I can feel another twinge in my other boob, I just think, "Oh, it's moving!"

'All forms of cancer are awful, most of the time, I get on with life but then I think that's probably what we do.

'But the fact is when you wake up in the morning and you think "It hasn't gone away". It isn't like the addictions that I've recovered from by the grace of God. There appears to be a long road ahead, or a mountain.'

In the caption of her post, Tracy revealed she'd been told she would start her chemotherapy 'next week'.