Fingers crossed

Off to see the radiotherapist.  Fingers crossed that he's still okay about treating the hand.  This will be something new for him.

It's been a bad week.  Neck pain, toothache, too many friends in hospital and other randoms.

Hand treatment next week

Waited an hour to see the radiotherapist as he was at a meeting.  I've now got lines inked all over my hands and two tiny tattoo spots on each so they can line the mask up the same for each radiotherapy session.

I've got a session each day next week, but only know the time for the first session so far.  Then there will be five follow-up sessions sometime in late August.  There's a reason I didn't book any summer holiday this year - I knew I'd need to leave space for treatment if I got it.

It's a bit scary.  I've fought hard to get this treatment (I don't know any other cases of someone in the UK getting radiation therapy for Dupuytren's), but now, it's in the lap of the Gods.  There's a good chance that it will halt the onset of the disease, or at least delay it by five to ten years, but it's not guaranteed.  Nothing that I do now will make any difference to the outcome.  (apart from the obvious one of turning up for my appointments)