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 asked my physiotherapist if it would be too optimistic to go to work the day after surgery. "Perhaps two weeks out from surgery I can go to work again", I thought. I truly thought my surgery was merely going to be an excuse for getting extensions on assignments, not going to class, or procrastinating. Sha-na-nope... Turns out the excuse was real. (Surprise surpise, surgery is apparently a very serious thing). The first 2-3 days I was hopped op on oxycodon, paracetamol and naproxen. I didn't really know how strong oxycodon was until I looked it up. Did you know its apparently twice as strong as…