Best Wishes for your new horse.

Glad you have a diagnosis, painful hips are a bitch, if I walk a block I feel like I have hot lava in mine. X-rays didn't show anything, the ortho doc even said there's good distance in the joint, meaning good cartilage...but she never said Why it would hurt so much after walking, I thought I was walking bone on bone. I can sit for a few minutes and be good for another distance but a seat isn't always available. In some stores I get a cart even if I don't really need it because I like having something to lean on. I'm changing health plans so this coming year will be interesting.

Go with the replacement. I know several people that have had one and they love being free of the pain and back to normal activities.

Good Luck with a new name. Used to ride a black horse named Shadow.

Your guys personality sounds very different than Holly's. Sometimes that's all it takes.