[Superman]

I like you madcorgi and we should have a beer some time but I'm not going to mince words here. ACL reconstruction surgery is not for sissies. When NFL players get an early-season tear, their hope is they will be back the following season. If they work hard. You're no different.

I have not had this surgery but my (then) wife did. Healthy, energetic, athletic, and it took her probably 8-10 months before her legs were the same thickness. That was a long time ago, but the warning is the same. Plan on doing some hard work. If you ever want to see grown men cry, go to a sports medicine institute. Physical therapists are evil. Okay, maybe not evil, but they're insistent. If you don't achieve the range of motion then want, they might strap you down and do it for you.