supplies for hospital

Hi all I have surgery 3/30/10. Can you please give me some ideas of what to take and what not to take to hospital. Anything you needed, wanted, couldn''t live without.

Erica

I am taking the clothes I will be wearing tomorrow morning, my netbook, cell phone, iPod, some toiletries, lip balm. Think I will take my pillow too, love my pillow.

Slip on shoes..... they make you walk post op and I always wear shoes, even at home... so with dirty hospital floors... I wanted real shoes.

Happy feet foot treatment and spa socks, because I know my husband is a real gem and would fix me up as I laid in bed.

Good good lip balm... this is one thing I could not live with out... treat yourself to an expensive tube of good lipbalm.

I didnt use anything else I brought with me.

So, I used my netbook once, didn't really care tho if I didn't have it.
Same for the iPod.
Forgot the pillow, didn't care about that either.
I was glad I had my Crocs to wear for walking, easy to slip on and off.
Did make good use of my cell phone, and make sure you have a charger.
You will want a pillow to hold across your stomach on the ride home!

I took a bunch of stuff I never used (including the lip balm... I was allowed ice chips as soon as I got out of recovery) the entire 4 days I was in the hospital (open surgery).  What I *did* take and actually use was my toiletries (tooth brush, toothpaste, brush, deodorant), my cell phone (be sure to take a charger, which I forgot!)  and my iPod.  My mom also brought me my own pillow because the hospital ones were hideous.

The one thing I did not take but wish I *had* was some slip-on COMFY slippers.  I had to make due with eitehr the non-slip socks the hospital provides or the moccasins I wore into the hospital... they worked, of course, but I wish I had something with some cushioning on my feet for all of the walking around the hospital floor.

Lora