ACL - Surgery

I figured I'd start a blog to let readers know how I'm doing on my ACL recovery.  A little background first, I first hurt my knee playing football on 10-14-2010.  I jumped up and caught a pass and when I landed I heard a loud pop and couldn't put any weight on my left leg.  Went to the Doc, got an MRI, blah blah.  I found out I had a completely torn ACL (it was in two pieces) and partially torn lateral and medial meniscus.  Surgery was set up for 12-2-2010.  The Doc said he wanted me to try and put weight on my knee before surgery and to get off the crutches.  I tried but couldn't put any weight on my knee if I did it would buckle and I'd fall down.  So I was on crutches for 6 weeks before surgery.  My doc recommended that I get the patellar tendon graft.  I’m 23 years old.  I have had two shoulder surgeries (same shoulder) in high school and tons of pulled muscles, broken bones, etc.