Jaye, you're going to be so happy you had this surgery. A hip replacement is a wonderful operation with an extremely high success rate. I'm a physical therapist, and have helped many people get moving again after the operation. I see them once they are discharged from the regional hospital, usually 5-7 days and by then many of them are saying they have no pain or just a little. (They are still on some kind of pain med, of course.)

Just do your exercises, and keep smiling! You will be looked after by acute orthopaedic physical therapists, and they may not know very much at all about PD - many of us have become very specialized and don't know much about other types of problems. You might even want to write up a little blurb for them about how you are affected now as far as mobility goes so they'll have a better understanding of where you're coming from.

I'll be thinking of you and praying for an excellent outcome.