Ankle's FUBAR Tim, LOL. It seems fine whenever I'm walking on it at work (just a little gimpy/limpy), but if I am off it for a few minutes, it stiffens right up. Doc said it will be months before it's healed, but I know it sucks having that steady ache all evening after work. And it darn near stays swollen all the time. All for a damn picture, haha. Oh well.

The KYB's don't seem to control the suspension at all. If I hit a bump, or series of bumps at speed...the truck kinda "skips" over top of them like the truck's too tight, and sometimes actually getting a slight death wobble thing in the steering wheel, and it never, ever did that with truck at stock height, when it was leveled, or even when it was first lowered on 120,000 mile stock shocks... It definitely handles better around turns, but I think that's more to do with the height of it, as opposed to the shocks. That's probably what is going to make me go back to leveled since I can buy another "full leveling kit" (with shocks) for just a few dollars more than another set of shocks for it now. Lowered is a ton easier getting into and out of with my bum foot though.

FWIW, I have zero drivetrain vibrations after lowering, but I have a one piece aluminum driveshaft as well.

 

Don't know what exactly you did to your ankle but I had a titanium plate and 6 screws installed after a touch football game and its still not right after 3 years. It took about a year for all swelling and 90% of the stiffness to go away. Now its just stiff when its cold and a little tighter than my other ankle all the time. Cold weather really sucks but it doesn't hinder me from doing any activities anymore and I'm back to playing sports and running. Hope you have better luck than me on recovery time.