Hi
@lyn12 
Glad you joined us but I sure do have so much sympathy and respect for your situation after enduring almost 20 years of revision surgeries and fighting infection.
You have to be one tough lady.
I don't know what your "new normal" will look like but I have read much about the procedure since you piqued my interest/concern.
There were varying accounts of life after girdlestone...
A lift in the shoe, certainly, and walking aides seem to be the terms on which patients were able to regain mobility.
We have had a member who commented on another's thread about his girdlestone being converted back to THR, but his situation was certainly far different from yours and he did not have all of the revisions and bone loss you have suffered.
Pain free 
did seem the common theme with the people I read about even with struggles with mobility.
I feel like your tenacity and persistence could make you one of the outliers as you go forward.

Just got to let that hip heal now and we would love to follow you on your journey back to health.
Healing hugs xxxx