Hope your appointment goes well & you can feel confident in your decision. I'm just at the 4 week mark post op & feel great. I really can see running on the soft shoulder of the road in my near future. I'm not a gung ho runner, never did a marathon, but it was good mental therapy & kept my weight under control. My doctor knew that skiing and running were things I'd want to do after & basically said make up our own mind. Just know that you may wind up speeding the time to a second replacement. It took me nearly a year to make the decision to do it, & boy am I happy I did. What did it for me was the constant limp & people wondering why. Too many people were noticing it & I was just annoyed with the limp persisting. The pain was only bad after I had a more active day, making me think it was tolerable & that hip replacement was such a drastic measure. I kept telling myself I can live with this, but I'll be miserable if I do this surgery and I'm worse off. I can see now that isn't going to be the case. Good luck, it is a hard decision to make, and you are smart to be checking out different surgeons.
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