phrog
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I think feeling a wobble that others can't see is pretty normal. You are not alone in that for sure. I had only one knee done and at 13 months I still feel a wobble (which seems different than the weakness I had from my thyroid problems). I fell three times over the first 10 months, partly from doing things I maybe shouldn't have been doing (walking on ice and snow on a hike 6 months out, climbing over a baby gate at 8 months and shuffling around in the garage in too big slippers while carrying boxes of Christmas decorations into the house at ten months). My knee still feels pretty weird - unstable at times, still very clicky and sore and my gait feels odd to me. That said, from about one month out, everyone told me how great I was walking - "You're really getting around good! Do you need that cane?" they would say. It got to the point where it kind of offended me - didn't they know I was hurting and felt like my knee was at the wrong angle? Sometimes I would explain, "UMMM, not so much! It hurts and when I'm tired it really hurts and it feels like it's bending the wrong way." But, in the long run it is just easier to say, "Yeah, not too bad." And, it's starting to become true - Just in the past two weeks I've done more walking and it feels more stable. Yea! You will get there @mlwreader . I think almost all of us do.
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