I'm working on embracing them. (Not literally, I'd need another surgery to be able to do that.) Is it a stage? I FEEL them working. i'll be 8 weeks Tuesday. The swelling is much less, really only some in one knee. So I think I am aware of their existence more. I don't see them, but my knees feel hard to touch. I know that they are good & buried under skin, tissue, fat, muscles & tendons, but when I bend my knees I feel the mechanics. no click or klunk. And I have the sensation of my knee pressing up against something even though it's not. No pain involved. I thinking that my muscles & bones are attaching to the prostetics and "becoming one". Hopefully when that is done all this awareness will go. Anyone?