I'm now about 8 months post second surgery and figured I should wrap up this blog with a final post.  

I am walking totally normal now with a good swinging stride.  I think I'm a bit slower now than I was before all this started but I'm also almost 2 years older.  I've been able to get back on my horse which was one of my big goals.  I'm happy to say that so long as I use a saddle (bareback didn't go so well), I'm totally fine.  

I do think that the left hip still has a few rough spots that flare up now and then and I feel a weird pull in the right one occasionally but I'm not so sure they are related to the actual surgery or something totally different.  Either way, I have absolutely no regrets for having both done and feel WAY better than I did before the surgeries.  I feel like I'll go into this winter with two good legs and much less likely to take a spill on the ice like I did last winter.  

Good luck to anyone considering surgery for FAI!