Personal Hip Resurfacing Stories features patient stories. Patients discuss their decision about choosing a surgeon and hip resurfacing instead of a total hip replacement. Their hip problems are described and often they talk about how long they endured pain before choosing to have surgery. The hospital stay and surgeon interaction are often described along with their early post op recovery. Many patients blog their stories from the time they have hip pain restricting their lives and activities thru their recoveries and returns to active lives and sports.