We landed in Bangalore about 10 days ago, were picked up very late at night and brought to the hospital. The hospital very soon touched our hearts. The people here were very warm and comforting. The nurses were excellent.

Dr. D.V. Rajakumar came here and talked with me. Some of the other doctors spoke with us. Some of the administrative staff talked with us; made us feel very comfortable about what was going to happen here.

I have been in a hospital for more than a dozen times in my life, good hospitals in the United States, but the difference you have in Bangalore, we didn't expect that when we got here. The difference that you have, I don't know that people here are better trained than what we have in the United States, but their care, their comfort and their attention and their desire to have you better, far exceeds anything in any other hospital I have ever been into in the United States and I have been in a couple of them.

I think that the greatest difference between India and the US is because the United States' system is so different than what we have here. Judy and I lost our insurance a couple of years ago because of back problems and some health problems that she had. So when we began to look for affordable ways for us to be able to have our health situation to be taken care of, there simply wasn't any way to do this in the United States. Here, the doctor would not do it because he didn't want the risk for his liability insurance. The hospitals would not do it because of the monetary situation involved. We spoke with many doctors and some of the hospitals over a period of 2 years and we could not get an operation done in the United States.

The last 6 or 8 months of my life, I have pretty much walked looking at the ground because I couldn't straighten up of the terrible problem in my back. But when Dr. D.V. Rajakumar did the surgery, the very next day I was able to straighten up, I have been able to walk, for the last couple of days virtually without any pain and any medication. So, that's the reason we ended up in Bangalore, simply because this looked like the best alternative.

I have had what's considered to be some of the best doctors in the United States who did my last surgery; in that surgery it was pretty much a failure. I just cannot in words tell you what I think of Dr. D.V. Rajakumar. What he did to me is pretty much miraculous; when you look at the fact that probably a dozen other doctors turned me down because of the difficulty of the surgery and one doctor told me that even if I had a surgery, the chances of improvement would be less than 10%. I have really improved today and I am probably a 100% better than what I was a week ago.

The facilities here are adequate for anybody, anywhere in the world. The rooms are lovely; the wards are very warm and accommodating. We are far away from home, about 10,000 miles away from home, but you have provided things for us like the Internet and other ways to communicate with our family and friends at home. It simply makes you feel like you are not as far away as you really are.