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Many Appointments Scheduled but Months Out?

Visiting Mayo Clinic | Last Active: Jul 1 1:09pm | Replies (8)
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@ajacobs3413

Thank you for your response!

When I had called earlier, they said to just wait and they might update some of the appointments to be in the same week I'm there, but it's been a few weeks and actually a few were moved even farther out from August to September haha.

I am traveling fairly far, from Colorado. I don't mind the traveling/staying, I just can't really miss more than two weeks of work for the year unfortunately! I'm wondering if it would just be better to cancel and continue to try to figure out locally (although the university doctors here are at a loss, haha).

Thank you so much!

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Laurie, Volunteer Mentor | @roch | Jun 21 11:37am

I will give you another option. Come to your first appointments, get an initial opinion (or in your case 2nd opinion) from provider and then discuss follow up appointments / tests and if any can be done locally or coordinated with your local providers. Explain the inability to keep coming back and forth to MN. Maybe after first appointment, some of the future appts will not be necessary.

It is hard to get initial appointments at Mayo, so I do not want to see you lose that opportunity.

It is harder to do tele-visits now seeing the provider has to be licensed in state where patient is. So that might not be an option, but if able to share tests from another location, might be more efficient.

Are any of the test scheduled at Mayo tests you have already had done? and if so have your shared results with Mayo?

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