Hello Newf fellow hot-shot!
Great to hear you're doing so well after your surgery! You are a few weeks ahead of me.
I am often forgetting I had the surgery done!!! I get distracted and start to do something and then my body doesn't work quite right and I almost wipe out and kill myself! LOL This happened the other day when someone was knocking at the door. I started down the stairs and my right leg went right after my left leg like one would normally do going down stairs... except I hadn't "practiced" going down the stairs yet normally.... I ended up over shooting the stair at the top of the stairs (!!!) and luckily caught myself with my good left leg and didn't tumble down the stairs!
I can't go back to work for several more weeks... sometime Dec they guestimate... wish I was back now as it's going to be a stingy Xmas being off work :/ My job is nights 12 hour shifts and very physically demanding so I know I couldn't do it now. I don't know if I'll be good enough to go back to it anyway. We'll have to see.
Reading your story gives me hope though, glad you are back to work and ripping up the deck for the kids rink! That's great!