Even though I just had the orientation yesterday, I decided that I would start my 24 sessions this morning. I was going to go in at 7:30 am but didn’t make it there until 8:00 am. It took awhile to get going since the receptionist didn’t know how much to charge me for co-pay. When I went into the gym, there were three nurses and about 10 people working out. Everyone seems to avoid the treadmills so I went on there for 30 minutes. The nurse that was helping me set the pace at 2.2 mph which came out to a pace of ~27’00” per mile.
My insurances charges me $25 co-pay per session since they consider it physical therapy. However, I’m not really getting individual attention. The nurses are just monitoring everyone’s heart rate and measuring blood pressure between exercise sets. It’s more like a regular gym workout rather than physical therapy. So for the 24 sessions plus orientation plus parking (not free), it comes out to $28 x 25 = $700 out of pocket. Not even sure how much they are charging my insurance for each session. So far, I’ve only seen a nurse about the very simple exercises. I’m hoping there are other people I can talk to, like nutritionists and psychologists.
In addition, I didn’t get out of the gym until about 9:20 am so it took 80 minutes. I have an endodontist appointment Monday at 9:15 am so it’s probably too risky to try and go exercise first. If I get there at 7:30 am sharp, I won’t get out until 8:50 am and I need about 30 minutes to get to the endodontist. I also don’t want to be all sweaty and out-of-breath. I may have to skip the entire week of cardiac rehab depending on how long I need to rest post-root canal.
Life with chronic diseases 