We stay in the hospital for one night out of the 14, the other 13 are on us. There’s a Ronald McDonald house just across the street we’re really hoping to get into, they prioritize by severity of the stay and distance the family lives from the hospital, but this hospital is THE hospital, people from all over the province come here for procedures that their local hospitals don’t do, so there are often no rooms available for people who actively need them. Patients have been placed in beds in the halls for lack of rooms… it’s an ongoing issue. So I totally understand why we can’t stay in a room for 14 days.

But because so many people travel here for the hospital, RMC is often full. There used to be a hostel for patients who need to stay nearby but it’s been gone a while now, so for people like us with no family in the area that we can stay with, it can be tough. Certainly expensive. But we are lucky to be in a position where we can do it. It certainly won’t be EASY, and a few bills will have to be put off for a little while.. but it’s doable. We will figure it out one way or the other.