At this time, Baba told Homa, "Show it to the doctor and, if necessary, have an operation done. Do not fear in the least; I myself will perform your operation!"
Baba sent Homa back to the doctor with Don, but admission to a hospital took several more days.
Baba advised Homa, "Have the operation performed, and remember that I am always with you. I will do all myself; you are not alone."
Before Baba's return to India, Homa had the surgery and had to stay in the clinic for four months. It was a serious operation on his knee, which had decomposed bone, but Homa felt Baba's presence always with him.
In London, Mehera also visited a plastic surgeon. The following is from Charmian's talk to the New York Group in September 1952:
... Mehera was taken to a very good plastic surgeon to see about the wound on her forehead. The surgeon returned the same verdict which we had received in New York before we left: "The skin on the triangular-shaped wound was not going to grow back. She would have to undergo plastic surgery and skin grafts would have to be made." Since it seemed inevitable that she must undergo the operation a good deal of talk went around over what would be best to do. Eventually it was decided to wait until we reached Locarno, where we would again talk to a doctor there who could give us some idea of how long it would take and what it would involve, and then decide whether it should be done in Switzerland while we were visiting, or whether she should stay over with Rano and Goher and a couple of the others, perhaps, to keep her company until she would return to India. If it could not be done, and it seemed unlikely since Baba did not want to break up the group, then she would have to get it taken care of in India.
On Sunday and Monday, 3rd and 4th of August 1952, Baba met people in the morning from 8:00 until 11:00 and in the afternoon from 3:00 until 5:00 in room 46 of the Charing Cross Hotel. Besides his old British lovers, almost 200 new seekers came into his contact. Milicent Deakes had returned to England and also saw Baba.
One of the first couples who met him on the 3rd at 8:30 A.M., was Harry Thomas Hopkinson, 47, and his wife Dorothy, 49. Dorothy's coming to Baba had an interesting beginning nine years before in 1943. She was undergoing psychoanalysis at the time, when she started having extraordinary experiences.