“Her Emotional Tears Say Everything…” — Tracy Shaw Is Readmitted To Hospital As She Faces Another Heartbreaking Chapter In Her Breast Cancer Journey
Coronation Street star Tracy Shaw broke down in tears as she filmed herself back in the hospital amid her breast cancer battle.
The soap star, 52, took to Instagram on Friday to reveal she had been forced to go to A&E despite trying to avoid the hospital in the heat, saying she was always worried about going through A&E because of the risk of infection.
In a tearful video, she explained: ‘So I’m in A&E, I had really really high temperatures yesterday and they spiked several times. I didn’t want to go to A&E in the hot weather so my body has suffered today.
‘As a consequence, I came in to A&E early this morning and I just want to say thank you to the NHS and everyone in the A&E department.
‘It isn’t easy coming in when we have cancer because there are a lot of people with – I’m not disregarding it – minor things, and some have just drank too much.
‘It’s really hard at this point when my immune [system] is so low to get through that part of the department without catching anything else.’
Coronation Street star Tracy Shaw broke down in tears on Friday as she filmed herself back in the hospital amid her breast cancer battle
The soap star, 52, revealed she had been forced to go to A&E despite trying to avoid the hospital in the heat, saying she was always worried about A&E because of the risk of infection
Tracy went on to thank the NHS and explained the aircon had broken in the hospital, saying she had witnessed a row after engineers had come in to fix the problem but were getting in the way of the nursing team.
She captioned her post: ‘Yesterday in A&E , I watched the nurses doctors and staff work incredibly hard in the heat with no aircon ????
‘Everyone who is working in hospitals today I salute you.’
Tracy was diagnosed with breast cancer in April, and shared on Instagram last month she’d had her first round of chemotherapy.
Since then the star has spoken about the side-effects of her treatment, including suffering from thrush and also has had terrible bouts of diarrhoea.
Earlier this month, she spoke to Lorraine Kelly about the impact of her treatment, saying she had ‘no idea how her body would react’ to the chemotherapy.
She said: ‘I’m doing OK today, it isn’t an easy path, and I’m only sharing it because there are millions, millions of ladies and gentlemen who are going through the same thing, and it’s just not a nice part of the disease, chemo really.
‘The first dose, they don’t really know how your body’s gonna react, so it’s a real big tester, and they now know, basically it’s like chicken pox.
‘I had a reaction and thrush all over me. You think you’re out of the woods with the chemo and then the next minute you get all the side effects, it’s just not pleasant.’
Tracy shared she was diagnosed with cancer after finding a lump in her breast, but explained she’d visited the doctor about a different health concern when she was referred for a mammogram.
She said: ‘Because it was underneath my breast, not on the breast itself, I thought well it can’t be so I postponed it just thinking it’ll be OK, but actually this lump it was kind of on top of my rib, so I went to the doctors and they were more concerned about my cysts, because I was on HRT, so the HRT was feeding the cancer, it doesn’t cause it but it was feeding it.
‘So the cysts were tight and sore, so that’s the reason I went, it wasn’t necessarily because of the lump, and the mammogram discovered the lump.’
Tracy played Maxine Peacock on Corrie from 1995 to 2003, before she was murdered by serial killer Richard Hillman (pictured on the show)
Tracy has been documenting her breast cancer battle on social media, and she told Lorraine she’d been overwhelmed with messages of support from others going through the same thing.
She added: ‘The whole family and all the people who are following and messaging, there’s mothers with sons, younger sons, sons my age, the family members are messaging.
‘Everyone is affected and sometimes just by sharing what the effects are, they understand how that person might be feeling?
‘You don’t know, the survivors are just amazing, the ones who are really reaching out and giving me advice and tips, and unless you’ve been there you don’t really know how it feels, because there’s nothing normal about your life anymore when you’re going through chemo.
‘I consider myself very very lucky and very fortunate because there are so many people who are worse off than I am, there are people being diagnosed terminal.
‘There are people who are suffering much more than me, every day I just wake up and thank god I’m being given this opportunity.’
Tracy played Maxine Peacock on Corrie from 1995 to 2003, before she was murdered by serial killer Richard Hillman.
She had previously shared that doctors told her she would need chemotherapy after tests revealed she has HER2 in her cells.
HER2 is a protein that promotes cancer cell growth and is found in more aggressive types of the disease.
The actress added that after a course of chemotherapy, she hoped to have surgery to remove lumps and lymph glands, so more tests can be done, which could lead to further surgery before radiotherapy.
