Did you use 'transplant' or 'donor/recipient' in your search terms? I'm sure there's living donor support groups out there that might have some of the info you're looking for.
When I needed to write about open heart surgery I found that many haert practices run or encourage blogging about the procedure, presumably so that they can send new patients over to get an idea of what the experience is like. I would be amazed if somebody out there is not blogging about their kidney transplant.
I can't answer all of those, sadly, but just a couple. (Okay, edited this first part because I'm a dodo bird and didn't see that she has PKD.)
Post-transplant medications for the donor and anti-rejection: cyclosporine or mycophenolate are the most commonly used. She would have to be very, very careful about infections, because her immune system is suppressed. Can't keep her toothbrush in the bathroom, because microscopic crap particles land on it when the toilet is flushed. No leftovers in the fridge older than two days or something.
The second link has been pretty helpful actually, thank you. So far all the website I checked where pretty general, the "they have to stay in hospital for some time" but without being specific about the precise duration.
Hospital rooms tend not to very a huge amount, unless you're looking for differences between public wards and private rooms (and I'm writing this in Ireland, so I don't know whether the NHS would have the better room facilities). Maybe look up the websites for the biggest hospitals in/around Sheffield - would they go farther afield than Sheffield for this operation? My aunt received cancer treatment in Manchester and Scotland, and she lived in Crewe (could have reached London or Birmingham if necessary but the best consultants for her case were in Manchester
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