Best wishes and rapid healing Deanna! Having gone through this myself a few years ago I literally feel your pain. Healing should be fairly quick, just make sure to get on it ASAP as the doc orders.
This is what I did the week after receiving my new hip:
Prayers from southeast Idaho!
Tight Lines,
Kelly.
"There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home."
Roderick Haig-Brown, "Fisherman's Spring"