Tracy Shaw 'thanks God every day' during breast cancer battle
Former Coronation Street star Tracy Shaw has revealed why she wakes up grateful despite her gruelling battle with cancer.
Tracy Shaw "wakes up and thanks God" every day during her gruelling breast cancer battle.
The former Coronation Street star, who revealed in April she had been diagnosed with the disease, has opened up about keeping a positive mentality despite her devastating health struggles.
Appearing on ITV's Lorraine on Thursday (11.06.26), she said: "I consider myself very lucky and very fortunate, because there are so many people worse off."
The 52-year-old actress and singer insisted some people have a tougher time, while others are terminal, and so she feels grateful for the fight she has.
Tracy added: "Every day I just wake up and thank God I'm being given this opportunity."
Earlier this week, she revealed she had been discharged from the critical unit and was taking treatment for an "infection in her blood".
Speaking to TV star Lorraine Kelly a couple of days after posting about her ordeal on Instagram, she said: "I'm doing ok today...
"It isn't an easy path. I'm only sharing it because there are millions of ladies and gentlemen who are going through the same thing.
"It's not a very nice part of the disease, chemo, really."
Fans were concerned for Tracy, after she revealed on June 7 that she had been rushed to A+E over the side effects of her chemotherapy, which made her have "no strength left".
A couple of days later, in a new Instagram video shared on Tuesday (09.06.26), she explained she is taking "really strong" antibiotics to fight the infection.
She said: "So I was let out last night from the critical unit because it’s better for us as cancer patients to be at home.
"The microbiologist is still super geeking over this infection. So they’re not quite sure what it is. So they’re just blasting it with some really strong antibiotics.
"I’m full of drip at the moment. So I’ll go back in today to have my second one. So, basically, I’ve just been sleeping."
Tracy - who played Maxine Peacock in the ITV soap from 1995 until 2003 - reassured fans that she is receiving the best care.
The star continued: "I’m in safe hands. Thank you to the NHS, thank you to all the nurses, thank you to my oncologist team. They are very hot on anything to do with infection when we're going through chemotherapy because it’s quite critical.
"It's just a fact. I’m not making a drama out of this."
In April, Tracy announced her breast cancer diagnosis in a video:
She told her followers: "I have come on just to explain a situation that is happening in my life. I have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
“Originally, I was going to be having surgery in two weeks, but because my results have come back that I am HER2 positive (positive for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2), it means I have to have chemo for five months before then, hopefully surgery to have the lumps removed and take the lymph glands out so they can do some more tests.
"And possibly more surgery before radiotherapy.”
