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[rivka]

If you were going to be spending several days in the hospital at the side of your sick toddler, what could someone bring you that would make things easier?

My friend Emily's husband decided to cancel his business trip, so she's at least going to have someone consistent to help, and give her breaks. But she's going to be the one spending nights at the hospital and so forth. Zoe's still very sick - they've given up on the idea that she'll be able to go home before Thursday or Friday at the earliest.

I'm going by to visit tonight. I'm planning to bring coloring books, crayons, and stickers for Zoe, and my electric kettle filled with herbal tea and cocoa packets for Emily. (I suspect that all they'll have on the unit is a coffee pot, and Emily is an observant Mormon.) I'm also going to bring by a light and frivolous novel.

Any other suggestions?

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[papersky.livejournal.com]

Books to read aloud to the toddler. Yeah, they'll have some already. Take some they haven't got. You get through them a lot.

Here's all I have to contribute (what a rotten name to rhyme, though at least it isn't as bad as Z, who rhymes out very quickly!):

There once was a toddler called Zoe
Whose breathing went wheezily whoa-ee. (woe-ee)
In a hospital bed,
Tucked up with her ted,
She'll quickly get better you know-ee.