Sorry for the delay, home again with a specific drug for the infection.

Have home health care now, a nurse packs and dresses the area twice a day, this could go on for a month or two, and it's a matter of how quick the wound heals.

Trying to recover while caring for my wife, in a great deal of pain, will get a hip replacement on the 22nd of August.

Thanks to all for the sincere comments.

Richard