6 month report: Yesterday marked 6 months post surgery, and I'm happy to report that everything is still going extremely well. I'd say I'm probably about 90% recovered and able to function fully normally with almost no limitations. I was just on a cruise last week and I took the stairs everywhere I went. If you know cruise ships, there are a lot of stairs. I had no issues climbing from Deck 3 where most of the main activity was up to Deck 8 where my stateroom was, or Deck 10 where the pool was. The only remaining thing is the area around the knee still feels quite numb, and it does still swell a little bit with a lot of activity, but those are perfectly normal things that I know take at least a year to get past. I won't be going out and running any marathons or anything like that, but the knee feels great and my quality of life is much better than it was before the surgery.
Chances are someday I'll have the other one done, but since getting the LTKR the right knee hasn't been bothering me. The surgeon said we will look at it when I go in for my one year checkup, but as of right now I'm nowhere close to having the right one done. I think part of what made the left one go bad so quickly was the torn ACL that we didn't even know was torn until the surgeon cut me open.