accept the fact that when you come out of surgery you are gonna hurt and you are not gonna want to move...but you have to if you want to walk normal again. my husband and my younger brother have both had knee replacements done...they were up and about immediately after surgery..first with walker, then they had about two to four weeks of physical therapy...my husband was back out on the golf course by the fifth week after surgery. he and my brother can do almost everything they used to do. but i guess the biggest thing that left an impression was that they learned real fast that to recover and walk again they had to work through the pain. it was worth it!