My First Post!

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It's now one week before I leave to go on my "most excellent" healing journey. Since my hips have abandoned me I have begun to view this trip as an adventure of sorts. God is my co-pilot! .

Today I confirmed my medical trip with Med Journey's out of New York. I will be leaving on Thursday, October 16th and will be flying to New Delhi, India for a double hip replacement. Yes, you read right. Double hip replacement. My right hip has had no cartilage for over a year and has given me considerable pain. My left side is now rebelling and X-Rays show not much cartilage left there either. I have become less and less mobile with more and more pain and I fear if I do not do it now I will be in a wheel chair in a couple months. I will be gone for a total of 25 day's.

Since I started my research I have found that there are number of medical travel agency's that will plan everything for you depending what type of medical condition you may have. I found that many places like India, Costa Rica, France and Thailand have state of the art hospitals and US and English trained doctors and give some best medical care found anywhere in the world at a fraction of the cost of what it is here in this country.

I also have learned that over two million Americans travel outside of the United States every year for all sorts of medical surgery's for ailments that they can not afford here in the great US of A. I am one of them since I do not have insurance. I have very strong views on the broken health care system in America but I do not want to use this blog to express them or any other political view but rather to use it to keep people informed on my progress every couple of day's.

At one point I was considering taking along a laptop computer so I could post daily blogs but cooler heads have prevailed and convinced me that I will have to much to worry about. I will be bringing my camera (my third arm) so I will have many images to show when I return. Monica (my wonderful wife) will blog for me with updates when I am able to call her. I am told I will be provided with a international cell phone so I will be able to make regular phone calls.

I will be making a number of posts before I leave about information I have accumulated and about some of the really wonderful and interesting people that I have met and that are helping me.

I realize that I am not alone on this journey.