Unexpected diversion to Jupiter

To my surprise, instead of going to Mercury today I was diverted to Jupiter.  It seems that Mercury was down for servicing.

Jupiter has a different view on the ceiling panels, but the biggest difference was no music!

When I commented on this, I was asked if I had any special requests or would I like to bring in my own CD?  An interesting idea, but what if I mentally associate that CD with radiotherapy whenever I play it afterwards?

Cancer patient travels in outer space

Another visit to Mercury today.  No I've not gone mad - it is the name of my radiotherapy machine (as explained here).

After travelling to Mercury, I spent some time exploring some of the medieval streets of the City of London and dropping in at a few city churches. 

Did you know there are 48 churches and 10 church towers (sans church) in the square mile?  

Today I explored St Mary le Bow in Cheapside, St Lawrence Jewry in Gresham St (where I picked up a handy leaflet on the city churches), and St Annes and St Agnes further along Gresham St.  I saw outside of the remaining tower of St Alban in Wood St - not possible to go in as it is "private".  It was rather surreal to see this isolated tower in the middle of a road....

Then off to meet up with friend for dinner.

I've decided to visit all of the remaining city churches and towers during my 5 weeks of radiotherapy in the city.  Only another 45 churches and 9 towers to go!

Radiotherapy - Day 1

The first radiotherapy treatment took place today.  I've been told the main side effect to expect is soreness and I've got to be careful to use aqueous cream regularly and be careful when washing and drying.  No swimming during the treatments or for a couple of weeks afterwards.  So there goes my plan to combine radiotherapy and swims at Ironmonger row baths.

For the first week I will treated with a machine called Mercury, but later on it will be Jupiter.  They name all the machines after planets.   They have all the planets there except Pluto - not really a planet anyway - and Uranus - might have been apt for certain types of cancer....