Yellow hits the home run! Planning ahead by placing needed things at a mid level for reachability. AND [I know, never start a sentence with a conjunction] squat and lunge. Those exercises will definitely be part of the post surgical follow up physical therapy anyway. So take ahold of a friendly piece of furniture and pratice gracefully squatting several reps at a time before hand. This practice will begin to create a habit I follow to this day, and my surgery date was 30 June 2010. Lunges...... awkward but truly doable befoe surgery, reaching out with one leg and going down with the opposite knee. You can lunge all of the way across a room and back.

So YELLOW, High Five!!!!! nah, wait a minute you are still too close to surgery at four weeks our, how about Mid Five!!!! Yeah, that should feel better,
Mark56