cheryl99, Some people have posted that living without a hip is a life of severe pain, but you have apparently found ways to alleviate or avoid that pain. Can I ask you to comment further? Right now it looks like I will need to have my prosthetic hip joint removed due to an MRSA infection that was initially thought to be only superficial. Since I don’t like what I’m reading about reinfections following hip revision surgeries, I want to learn as much as I can about living without one hip, or living with a hip resection (Girdlestone procedure).