monty-t

When I was younger, I thoroughly enjoyed bodybuilding kept up with the sport until I injured myself in the early 90’s. At the time I did what I could, but never found the right treatment and eventually tried to live with it. My occupation as a steelworker for twenty plus years, didn’t help matters either. It got to the point where as I got a little older I began to self treat. This was not yielding good results, so my family doctor and I did some research, and that is how we came across Dr. Mileti. We discovered his office is located fifty-five miles west of where I live and we both decided that setting up an appointment with Dr. Mileti would be a good step toward my recovery. After years of pain, I finally had a shoulder replacement in 2012, and it was the best decision I’ve ever made in my life! During the twenty years I spent trying to live with the pain I went into “sleep mode” and would eventually gain over a hundred pounds. After “waking up” in early January 2017 and confidently knowing I was well enough to be doing something about this, I began exercising, slowly at first, and eventually started to increase the intensity and frequency of my workouts. I actually jog now, which is amazing considering that at certain times throughout this journey I thought I would never run again. I work out 4 times a week now and have the energy I had in my late teens and twenties. I went from 274 pounds in January 2017 to my current weight of 166.2. I want to thank Dr. Mileti because without him this wouldn’t have been possible. I would also like to thank the kind staff as well, Nurse Katie, and everyone else on my care team at Orthopedic ONE. Thanks to all of you, at 52 years of age, I feel like I still have a lot of life left to live!