For decades, Hope dealt with limited mobility in her left leg after injuring it in a car accident. But when her right hip started locking up, she became almost totally immobile.

“My good leg …was my right leg. That one did all the work. And then all of a sudden one day I couldn’t move it. Very painful. Scary. Because my doctor took an x-ray and he said it was bone on bone.”

Steroid injections helped, but when they wore off, the pain returned.

“I couldn't walk. It just hurt so bad. I couldn't even leave my house, unless I had help from somebody. It was really bad, I would walk and be afraid that at any moment I was going to freeze and I couldn’t put my foot down. Nobody knew it. I didn't tell… it was my pain, my hurt. Nobody knew. It was just me.”

For a year and a half, hope prayed fo

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