Items to have at home when you...

Here's some things to get ahead of time:

Fill all your prescriptions before you go to the hospital
soups/broth
strainer for chunky soup (can can drink the broth and blend the chunky stuff to freeze and eat when you have moved on to pureed/ mushy foods)
personal sized blender, especially the kind with many cups/ lids to blend directly into
vitamin E oil or body butter w/ vit. E (good for scars)
extra ice cube trays for freezing broth, mushies, crystal light, etc. (an ice cube is a meal size for a while)
baby spoons (help keep your bites very small)
Aleeve or some sort of pain management
loose pants to wear below incision points (or a robe for around the house)
crystal light, vitamin water, bottled water, etc.
sugar free mints for nausea (hope you don't need them!)
a good scale (some can track weight loss, BMI, hydration, weight until set goal, etc.)
protien shots/ mixes/ shakes, etc.
sugar free pudding, yogurt, etc. (for when you graduate to to something thicker than broth)
things you might like to turn to mush (tuna, chicken, etc.) (look up some recipes ahead of time by searching "Weight loss recipes", "blender recpies" or "blender recipes for weight loss")
cup/ candle warmer (so your mushies or broth can stay warm while you take your time eating)
inscents to burn while others are cooking (are you really going to want to smell yummy food while on liquids?)
GasX strips
prilosec (or something like it)

What else can you think of or have heard about?
 

the cup/candle warmer is a great idea i never though of. i also need to get a nice scale, i have no scale at all and i have never tried to keep track of numbers. i always went by my appearance and going through different sizes of clothing.

i wish i had something more to add right now but i think you covered everything.
maybe find a unflavored unsweetened protein isolate that tastes good in soups or i could flavor myself. i already have a large bag, the taste isn't very great but i am very put off by eating things that aren't "food" like preservatives and "flavors" or the fake sugars like sucralose and aspartame... those fake sugars are in almost everything premixed

I haven't heard too much about "good" unflavored proteins...so let me know if you find one!