I actually read this post during my hip surgery and it was encouraging. Be patient it’ll get better then good then you’ll wonder why you worried.
Broke my hip 10/30/13 on an after dark mtb ride (ok, people told me it was risky but hey it was fun up until). Subtrochanteric fracture, basically snapped the head of the femur at the hip. Surgery 11/1, rod inserted in femur with pin at hip, glad I was asleep for that, 3 days in hospital, had to have 2 units of blood day after or I probably coulda gone home sooner.
What you can expect: if they went in from the side they had to ‘compromise’ (my surgeons words) the leg muscles, you will have little to no side to side strength (try laying on your back, try to swish your leg side to side, probably won’t happen), you will have very limited quad strength (try lifting your knee but don’t try too hard), anyway you’ll soon know all this stuff and you won’t be pleased.
What to do: do the PT, it won’t seem like much and you’ll get impatient but don’t push it, if you do you’ll be wrecked the next day or two AND endanger the healing (if the hip doesn’t heal properly, they have to go back in and ‘fix’ it). I used a walker the next 2-3 wks, switched to a cane over Thanksgiving. The following week I was able to do a little spinning (30 min), then swimming, got an aquajog belt and did pool walking/jogging mostly. In December I was spinning, swimming and aquajogging for about 30 min at a time, and 2-3 PT sessions (range of motion stuff, electro-stim for the quad extensions, curls, hip ab/adductor with bands) Jan 2013, I was swimming,spinning/trainer, aquajogging 30-45 min, 3-4 times/wk, and continued PT. Actually got on my mtb last week in Jan, short 20 min ride. Hardest thing was getting on/off bike! keep in mind I’m still using a cane. Feb, more of the same, quit going to PT sometime in Feb but kept doing the range of motion, quad/hip exercises (got a ‘free’ tee from the PT) and a little on the treadmill (I had to steady myself with the rails) and elliptical. Doctor pronounced fracture ‘healed’, last week in Feb, also, shed the cane sometime during Feb (funny don’t remember exactly when). March, more of the same, starting to be a pretty standard training week even added some walk/jog w/o holding on to the rails. Walked a 10k on Easter, earned a shinny medal object (love that stuff). April, swam 6000-8000yds/biked 45-80/ran/walk 2-3mi/week, did a relay for NOLA 70.3 (swam/bike), not fast but not too shabby.
Sorry for the long post, altho’ you’re probably stuck in bed with nothing to do except wait for more morphine (by-the-by as you know you get some pretty strong meds, weaning yourself from those will be a challenge but again go slow with it, I gradually started cutting back after 8wks, was completely off them by end of Jan.) So long story short, go slow (man re-reading what I did makes it seem like I was pushing it but at the time it seemed like progress was glacial). It’s been 6 mos as of 5/1 and I feel I could do most anything swimming/biking, not as fast (well as fast as I used to be) but still, I’m optimistic and running well we’ll see. Also, you’re 40, I’m 62, I suspect you’ll heal just fine, of course anything can happen (actually there was a velonews issue on injuries and the bad things that can happen) and YMMV but really the only obvious danger is if you push too much during the re-hab/healing phase. You’ll get tired, frustrated, even angry but resist the urge to give up or go too hard seek the happy place.
Anyway, good luck and God speed.