Thanks for responding. If there were a lot of patients on connect.MayoClinic, then being able to talk live with other patients would help
patients not feel so alone, whether they were still in the hospital, or at home. However, it takes a very large membership for there to be at least two
patients online at all times available to talk to each other. I don't know if connect.MayoClinic enables us to talk to other patients at other hospitals, or just
Mayo patients in Rochester, Jacksonville, and Scottsdale. It might be that the only way to keep a live chat room going 24/7 would be to enable all hospitals world-wide to join Mayo Clinic Connect. That would have advantages and disadvantages.

It looks like Mayo has Volunteer Mentors. I don't know how many of them there are, but if there was a live chat room, maybe the Volunteer Mentors could sign up on a schedule so that there would always be at least one online to chat with, 24 hours-a-day. Just an idea. I'm currently in remission with CLL, and at home. I feel that only a small percentage of Mayo patients even know that Mayo Clinic Connect exists. I just happened to stumble upon it, probably because
I spend hours-a-day on the internet. I'm a true 🙂 internet addict.