General Fitness & Nutrition: Misdiagnosed Stress Fracture

I am posting this in the hopes that someone can avoid what I went through.

 Long story short, my leg started feeling sore.  I had not fallen, twisted, or otherwise done anything specific that caused this.  I continued running every day for another week, until it became so sore I could not run.  I rested for a few weeks before finally seeing a doctor.  He diagnosed my injury as a pulled muscle, and sent me for a hip x-ray.  This came back negative.  He sent me to physical therapy, and over the course of several weeks they had me in traction, walking on a treadmill, stationay bike, etc.  Over the course of 3 months since the initial injury, my symptoms slowly got worse.

 My primary care physician finally sent me for an MRI.  Turns out I had a femoral neck fracture, the part of the femur where it necks down to the ball of your hip.  It was almost completely factured.  Research on-line says that this type of stress fracture may not show on an x-ray in the initial stages.

My orthopedic surgeon said I was a "walking time bomb" and immediately had me admitted to the hospital.  The following day I had surgery, during which a plate, 2 screws, and a bolt through the femur into the ball were installed.  I was up on crutches the night of the surgery, and home the next morning.  It looks something like this:

If it had broken completely, I would have ended up with a new hip.

He says I will be able to run again; I am glad I was in OK shape going in.  I eat well, I wear good running shoes, and my bone density looks good (per my surgeon, who saw them in person).

 It gives me the willeys to think of all the stuff I did over those 3 months...

 Hopefully no one goes through this...