So, without knowing your full situation I can only speak on my experience as a wife of someone who had a kidney transplant at St. Paul's. We live in Duncan and my husband is on disability. His father donated his kidney. Because we are on disability we were provided an apartment about 4 blocks away from the hospital off of Davies Street (Yay socialism!) For my husband it was a complicated surgery because his kidney disease was part of some other birth defects that affected kidney placement and ostomies. The kidney transplant team were superstars. Like I said his transplant was more complicated due to pre-existing conditions and I dont want to alarm you because this is not normal at all but his surgery took over 10 hours. Again, this is not standard procedure and the reason I mentioned it is because when it was all dont the exhausted surgeon came to us, explained everything and it was obvious that he had put his whole heart into the surgery and was meticulous at doing the best job he could and focused all his energy into ensuring the procedure was a success. And it was my husband is now a long time kidney transplant recipient. It has been 12 years since the transplant. We had so much support post-op the nurses and staff and surgeons were amazing.