New Knee Status: Almost Two Years

Something Wicked This way Comes....
Well not as sinister as all that but still a bit of a downer.
Just to catch you up:
April 2015 was the total knee replacement. After which I had a stellar rehab.
By August 2015 I was back at work and up through May 2016 I spent a lot of time going back and forth to Turkey for my work (Flight Tests of 737 AEW&C). I even fit in a few stopovers in the UK and Iceland where I tested my new knee with things like climbing the Bath Cathedral tower and riding the Iceland Horses. During that time I felt pretty good about the knee but started having issues with my right foot!
Oh yeah that is probably a whole 'nother blog subject. In short, when I was in junior high my horse took a fall climbing a muddy hill with me on her. My right foot got smushed between her and the ground and pretty much every bone in that foot was either broken or dislocated. Treatment at the time was an ace bandage and crutches....  Fast forward to present day and we have arthritis and a wildly cranky foot with a 40 some year old injury.
So how is this relevant to this Left Knee post? Maybe it really isn't but it did do two things. It totally distracted me from my knee and also caused my walking gait to go wonky and likely added some odd loads to the new knee joint.
I did eventually notice that my knee was not really happy.... Back in the summer I went in to have it checked. BikePT noticed that it appeared to be a bit loose. Doc took X-rays and sent me for scans to make sure it was not infected. He didn't like some of the details on the X-rays that appeared to indicate that the lower metal piece might be loose. We took a wait and see attitude but he warned me that we might have to unzip it to fix it. On my visit to him just before RSVP he warned me not to stand on the bike... for 200 miles!?!  In early December Doc removed 80ml of fluid from it, yikes! Fluid was tested and showed no signs of infection but by early January the knee was swollen again. When I visited the Doc we both noticed that it was no longer straight and was in fact back to bow-legged mode when I stood on it. So after looking over all the data we made the decision to unzip the knee and do a revision. Plan is to replace the lower piece with a piece that has a longer spike.
So fun times ahead!