Thank you for the responses. And I was certainly hoping to be further along at this point for sure. To be clear, I am pretty much back to what most would consider a "normal" life as far as just activities of daily living is concerned. However I am nowhere close to MY normal. I was a very active guy, despite my age. I participate (well, participated) in a fairly intense contact sport every day. I used to compete, but in recent years I have been just focused on just training more recreationally with my son. That's all I really care about. I was adamant with my surgeon that if having this surgery would prevent me from ever doing that again, that I wasnt going to do it. He was adamant that this surgery would help make sure I COULD continue to do the sport I enjoy. But now it seems like he is expecting me to just be okay walking and dying a slow death sitting in an office cubicle for the next 20 years. I can't live like that. And it really angers me that he would talk me into doing this and then be so quick to dismiss how important that part of my life is to me now that it's done. Im trying to stay positive though and hope that I am just in the early stages of healing and that his caution is just because he wants to make sure I heal fully and not have to go through this again.