I have a partial and my whole first year was the slowest of slow recoveries. However, I had a lot of improvement my second year, and even some more improvement in my third year post op, so don’t give up hope.
My general outcome has not been great. I’ve had two different second opinions, one at 15 months and one at just under 2 years post op, and neither surgeon found anything to fix, and wouldn’t even order any further tests.
I know you said you live alone and there’s no one else to do the things you are doing, so it’s really hard to cut back your activities, so I suggest any time you are sitting, get your feet up on an ottoman, or the couch. When I’m home and sitting, my feet are always up, unless I’m sitting at the dining room table, and that only happens if I have company, which isn’t often.
I know how frustrated you feel, I felt that way, too, well into my second year. “This wasn’t supposed to go this way.” Due to misinformation before my surgery it was my belief that a partial was a quick recovery and only a fraction of the recovery of a total. I now know that a partial can take as long, or longer, depending on a lot of things, as a total.
Try to continue to be patient, which I know is very hard, but really, you still have a lot of healing to do, and it will happen. It’s really too early to be thinking revision. (And I dread that possibility also!) If I had known then what I know now, I wouldn’t have worried so much about my recovery that first whole year.