Hello there my friend. I myself am currently going through the same exact dilemma as you have gone through with your hip! I successfully had my right hip replaced by Allen Associates and was up and going good in a few weeks. That was 2018 and it was three rotator cuff surgeries following the hip replacement in 2019. All three attempts were unsuccessful and as a result of carelessness and lack of concern to my complaints post surgery, my suprascapula nerve was severed during surgery and it went undiagnosed for so many months that when I finally found out through a nerve conduction study it was too late to repair the nerves and muscle atrophy is now permanent. So let’s talk about my left hip! After Covid holds on non emergent surgeries, I started seeking out a different surgeon to fix my left hip which was in very bad shape. I found a surgeon local to my location and he seemed to have all the right answers and wanted to jump right in and get started with the surgery, so I committed to his offer of services. Surgery for him was backed up and it was nearly three months before I would finally have surgery. During that wait, my hip became unbearable to even touch. It swoll up almost the diameter of a basketball and I could not even get out of bed to get to my surgeon to see what in the world was going on with it. My wife tried on several occasions going to his office with pictures and video of my hip and leg and she was told that I was going to have to “Tough” it out until surgery which was ,at this point; still three weeks away. I can not even explain the amount of severe pain my hip and leg went through during this swelling period! November 8, 2025, day of surgery had finally arrived. I had been stuck in the car for 5 days because I was scared to try and get out and make it up three sets of steps & back to bed and not being able to make it back to my car for surgery day! It took a team of people at the hospital to get me out the car and to the OR. My wife spoke to my surgeon and he told her to give him a couple to three hours and he would call her when surgery was complete. My wife left and 21 minutes later , on her way to get breakfast @ 620am; she was being called to come back to the hospital immediately! Upon arrival, she was told that my hip was completely infected with MRSA and two other infections and he had to put a drain in and immediately close me up to battle the infection that”HE WASNT AWARE OF AND SAID HE WAS NEVER INFORMED THAT MY HIP HAD GOTTEN SO BAD”! I spent the next 33 hours battling for my life with my hemoglobin down to 3 and 4 and a temperature of 103.5 to 104.3! Seven blood transfusions later I was back in surgery to clean out infection, put in an antibiotic spacer and close me up for 8 weeks of at home IV vancomycin 3 times a day via pic line! I walked for three days after completing antibiotics and was back in bed in a more painful condition w/o the swelling, just extreme pain, god awful spasms and overnight muscle atrophy it seemed. My leg from pelvic bone looking down towards my foot looked like a sucker, my femur bone being the sucker stick and my knee being the sucker ball! I was transported via EMS on the 11th of this month (April 11, 2025) and I am still at the hospital as I type this. This go around I have just three infections with MRSA being the heavy hitter, no hip joint or spacer anymore and my left leg is in an immobilization brace that has my knee hyperextended and so painful and am flip flopping between to potential antibiotics and just was informed three days after surgery that he had broken my femur during surgery and I have to have another surgery to install a plate and sleeve to strengthen by femur bone and my pelvic bone apparatchik needs reinforcement where the new prosthesis will eventually go. After surgery this coming Monday or Tuesday to install just the surgery damage fracture reinforcements then it’s back to IV at home antibiotics for 11 weeks this time then if all bloodwork and tests confirm infection is no longer present…….surgery 6 ……. Final prosthetic hip. I know I’ve gone off point with all the details of what I have gone through with this left hip and none of it have I ever questioned, blamed, look confused or didn’t know what was going on at all times but when that surgeon told me that I could walk without a hip joint and approximately 6 inches of femur missing, nothing has had my mind rapidly trying to visualize this in my head! I am a retired, 32 year career electrical engineer and have myself personal designed and manufactured some really neat and mind puzzling devices but I have tried to visualize in my head and even on paper the capability of walking without no hip joint and no connection to the femur. Please explain to me how this is possible because if it has validity to it I’m canceling all these repeat upcoming surgeries and getting my life back. Thanks