When you are convinced like it sounds you are, get in the line ASAP. Thank your lucky stars for the short wait in the U.S. In Canada the wait is at least 10-13 months for this elective surgery and that is why I paid the cost, sucked it up and went to the U.S. for more experienced surgeons.
Our govt. funded fully paid by public insurance emplyment contributions, is fantastic for having babies and threatening surgeries such as heart etc., because they are no cost to the patient but was terrible for my case.
I am coming up to the critical 6 weeks post-op surgery xray / physio report this week, and I can definitely feel my quality of activities coming back in the months to come.
The biggest challenge as hernanu and others have put it, is to let the bone structure heal before pushing the related hip muscles/activities. I feel great and want to do more but have seen the yellow flag.