Surgery soon,surgeon will break hip bone put in foot,I have concerns?

My daughter had surgery on her foot after car wreck.Foot was crushed and middle toe came off.She also had other serious injuries.The surgeon put huge screws and pins in at that time.Her surgery di not work and her foot bone is starting to die.The surgeon is going to do the surgery again and put new screws and pins back in.He is also going to break her Hip bone and put that in her foot.My question is...Has anyone ever known someone that had this done?Does it work? What are the chances of the foot being fused or taken off? Will her hip start causing her chronic pain?How long does it take to recover from breaking the hip bone and putting it in the foot?Is the Hip bone going to possible cause her to be cripple in the future,They are taking it from the left side her right side is the bad side and allready is crippled some what.

working in an OR, i have seen surgeries like this done. the success rate is pretty good. a reconstructive surgery like this is never taken lightly. if your doctors have decided this, its the best thing they think they can do. there are somethings that should been explained better, like, they don't really break the hip , they take parts of the ilium, which is that big bone you can feel on the side that makes up your hip, things like that. the way you have it, it sound a lot worse then it is. it's not like this is not done all the time, and believe me your doctor has asked all his colleagues what they think before he/she came to this conclusion.
you have a right to be nervous, and question all these things. but your question, i hate to say it, but you'll have to wait and see how things heal before some of these question can even be addressed. sorry. good luck.

What the surgeon is doing is grafting bone to bone to add more strength to the foot bone.
She should not have trouble with her hip after the graft area heals a bit.
Good luck to her and my prayers will be for a safe surgery and quick recovery.

They don't really break the hip bone, they pull bone fragments out of the large part of the pelvic bone. It's done all the time and will not hurt the hip joint at all (because it is not taken from the joint, but from the iliac crest)

Her own bone is the best thing to put in there because it will not be rejected.

She may have pain in the graft donor site, but that will heal.

There are no guarantees in medicine; only time will tell what the outcome will be. If she wants to have the best possible outcome, she needs to follow her surgeon's instructions and not ever smoke (it robs the tissue of oxygen and can cause the surgery to fail)

Best of luck to both of you!

Ask the surgeon to suggest some other surgeons with whom you can discuss the case. This is big enough to warrant a second opinion.