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Can you select your Mayo surgeon?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 3 11:21am | Replies (34)Comment receiving replies
Thank you for your reply. Did you stay in Minnesota until your catheter was removed? Who provides your follow up care? Local urologist or Mayo?
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My wife and I stayed in Rochester, MN until the catheter was removed. It was not a requirement, but we wanted to be local, just in case there were complications. No complications occurred, but it was a good "insurance policy".
FYI - You can work with Mayo-Rochester to find rentals that are quite cost effective. Because it is cancer related, you will be able to get a far lower cost per night. We ended up not going with a Mayo related rental, but the Air BnB was quite cost effective and less than a 1/2 mile from the Methodist building in Rochester. Please note - This was 1.5 years ago, so with the high level of inflation, I would expect to pay about $200 per night (outside of the Mayo discount program) versus the $100 we had. This is what we paid last week, when we went to Mayo for a check-up and stayed over the night before.
Take care and best of luck,
Jim
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My wife and I stayed on campus post surgery in a Mayo Clinic Charter House apartment until my catheter was removed (1 night post surgery was no charge and I arranged in advance to pay for 6 additional nights in Charter House until my catheter was removed). Charter House rates are reasonable (comparable to the cost of a hotel room and there is an onsite cafeteria with take out and a full kitchen to fix meals).
All subsequent follow up care with Dr. Frank and his team has been with Mayo Clinic by Zoom, phone calls or Mayo Clinic portal emails. I have to take a PSA test every 3 months for 2 years. The PSA tests are ordered by my local internist here in Ohio and reported to Mayo Clinic through MyChart. Fortunately my first 3 PSA tests have been undetectable so I just send a message to Dr. Frank's office using the Mayo Clinic portal and receive back a reassuring response along the lines of "keep up the good work."
If my PSA tests become detectable or I have other prostate removal issues that I feel need to be addressed I plan to work with Dr. Frank to determine how and where to best proceed. I live about 700 miles from Mayo-Rochester but the logistics have been very workable. And as I said in my post above, well worth it because I am totally confident that I have received the very best medical treatment possible from Dr. Frank and his team.