Oh man, the guffaw I let out upon reading that Mayo caught on to her shenanigans and slapped her with a FND diagnosis. Being seen at THE Mayo Clinic is something many munchies aspire to but maybe they should be grateful they didn’t get their heart’s desire. And then she has the nerve to act like Mayo, one of the top hospital in the world especially when it comes to groundbreaking research, isn’t good enough for her. The hospital that required an international airport be put in little Rochester, MN because Saudi royalty need to be able to fly their personal jets directly there for medical care - it just isn’t skilled enough to handle our poor one in a million zebra Chelsea!
I’m curious what Twin Cities hospitals she frequents. She mentioned a few times about transferring to ‘the other campus’ which leads me to believe she mainly munches her hospital stays at the University of Minnesota, as they have both a West and East Bank campus. There’s also the pic from the back of the ambulance/medical transport that clearly said U of M on the back windows, though with so many medical facilities and hospitals in the Twin Cities, you can find ambulances and transports from every system at all the hospitals. Her precious Dr Byrd is a U of M Fairview hospitalist as well.
In general she comes across as incredibly self absorbed when she talks about how she can’t get the care she needs in her area. The Twin Cities has a large number of well regarded hospitals that cover basically every specialty that you can think of. Mayo of course, Abbott for heart and neurology, U of M for research, Regions for burn and stroke, Gillette and Childrens for pediatrics, both HCMC and Regions are level 1 trauma hospitals that receive trauma patients from all over the Midwest. And that’s just off the top of my head - I know there’s a lot more that I just don’t interact with. There’s the Fairview, Healthpartners/Park Nicollet, and Allina care systems that have hundreds (if not thousand) of specialty clinics in Minnesota. It’s not fancy in the Midwest but they do have excellent medical resources without having to go to the coasts for specialty things.
Chelsea, the reason you can’t find the care you want even among so many top notch options is because you just want doctors to shower you in benzos, opioids, and that sweet sweet attention without questioning anything you tell them because there’s not actually anything physically wrong with you!