Lloyd,
I have to echo everyone and say great to hear things went well enough for you. My limited experiences with the knife are that if you don't do something stupid (a long but funny story there), recovery is pretty quick to being pretty normal functionally. You may still be reminded of things but you will be shooting and reloading again soon enough. Start with you 32s and work up to your Linebaugh beasts though. Of course if they get lonely in mean time I would love to give them a bit of a work out for you, just need the big brown truck. Haha.