Hi Joe,
Thank you for your kind and thoughtful reply. Yes, I honestly did all of the stretching exercises after surgery, with *great* difficulty, the ankle slides along with a special black brace that was sold to me from the hospital, which was extremely painful to use. I did a lot of strengthening exercises before the surgery, but I guess that I didn’t do enough of them. My surgery was done in Boston, at a top hospital, where that Mako robotic assistant was advertised, but I don’t think that it was used in my surgery, unfortunately. When I inquired about it to the surgeon, he told me that at the time, it was only being used with hip surgery. Just had a cortisone injection to my left knee a few days ago. I know that it will wear off in a couple of months, but honestly, I just could *never* put myself through such a torturous surgery again. So glad that you made out well with both knees!!! Good for you!!! Happy that you worked with that trainer ahead of time! That is very important to have your quads in shape ahead of the surgery! I thought that I had done that ahead of time, but I guess all that I did was not enough. My problem was not being able to have some sort of pain med to get me through it. All my best to you!