I have had a few (too many) hospital stays in the past, and each time I just took my usual toilet kit, which happens to be of the roll-up variety. It had everything I needed to keep clean and happy (at least as happy as you can be in a hospital getting cut on). Being a reader, I also took enough pocket books to last me thru the stay. As I was a full time LEO when all of this went on, a couple of times I took a scanner, with earphone, so that I could keep up with what my buddies were doing. That caused a little bit of a problem, as the staff was afraid that this RECEIVER was going to interfere with their telemetry gear. Once that was straightened out there was no problem. I usually wear shower shoes, aka flipflops, when in a strange shower, but the nature of my "visit" (back surgery) told me that I wanted something more stable on my feet, so I showered (when I had recovered enough to bypass the spit bath, given by a 75 year old, 300 pound lady, darn it), barefoot, and staggered around the floor wearing the one-size-fits-none slip on thingies. Other than that, I watched some TV, and slept a lot. Providing goodies for visitors was waayyyy down on my list of things to bring, they should have the sense to take care of themselves...