You're very welcome. I'm told hip replacement is much easier to recover from than knee and shoulder. Well, I'll soon find out.

One thing to note about hip replacement - the surgeon can make an anterior (frontal) incision or posterior incision. Anterior is preferred because muscles are pushed to the side rather than cut. In a posterior incision, muscles of the glutes are cut and then sewn back together. I'm told recovery is more painful, a bit slower, and severed and repaired muscles can never go back to their pre-surgery state.

The incision site is decided by the surgeon. I don't know what that involves, but anterior sounds like the best way to go. At any rate, recovery from hip replacement is usually very doable.