@zekeandbelle, welcome. I added your question to the Visiting Mayo Clinic support group as well as the Colorectal Cancer support group.

I'm tagging fellow colorectal/anal cancer members like @gap1 @jcronk3547 @annejacobsen @pjebp @patsyh who have experience with colorectal or abdominalperineal resection surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. You may appreciate some of the discussions in the Visiting Mayo group https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/traveling-to-mayo-clinic/

You are in good hands at Mayo Clinic. And yes, there are logistics to work out and you probably have loads of questions.
Do you have a surgery date? Have you downloaded the patient portal?

What questions would you like to ask?