Feeling slightly normal after surgery

I am currently 16 days post-op. I had ACL reconstruction surgery, with some additional bits and bops. Basically my knee is like a cool transformer, just a lot fatter (I swear its the swelling, okay?). But wow, I really underestimated how difficult recovering from surgery is. I wrote all my professors that I was unsure what was going to happen, and might need extensions on my assignments. Even…