Your legs are better than mine but I tore ligaments in my knee so that's not fair.

I just hope that you don't have to experience an injury like that. It is not a good type of pain, dude.
post surgery was a fun time as well.

I did not use my quads in my leg for 7 weeks after the surgery, no walking, or even bending my knee. My arms actually looked bigger than my injured leg.
I am still not back to squatting. I am happy to leg press a weight that many here probably warm up with. I'm not stupid enough to try and squat and reinjure my acl/mc. You only get one set of knees.