Dear Henry, After a few months of medical rigamarole, I've gotten the results from my hip injury.  It isn't great news. I've torn my left hip labrum twice and compromised the structure of the labrum between the two tears. The surgical fix would require that I have the labrum completely reconstructed, using a tendon harvested from somewhere else in my body (as if I have extras). This surgery could not be done locally in Roanoke; I would need to go to DC, Charlotte, or Pittsburgh. Any surgery would, given all of my previous orthopedic nonsense, be risky, and most importantly, reconstructing my labrum would not reduce the (already manageable) pain in the hip, nor improve my (already excellent) leg function; in fact, this surgery would probably make everything much worse. So medicine isn't a fix, at least not a good one. I decided to pass on any surgical intervention and stick with physical therapy. I've also given up my dream of walking the Camino de Santiago, which ha...