BLANKETS - Ask for the hospitals. When you throw up on them, they bring you clean ones. If it is bad, they will preheat them.

CROCKS - After throwing up on a pair of $180 cross trainers, I took in CROCKS and several pair of socks. Throw up all over them, take a shower, the socks will dry.

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE - If you are on enough antibiotics to get THRUSH in your mouth, you will want it to gargle.

BIG BAD BOOKS ("BEARS" AND BEARS II) - I was too near death to run the lap top.

S&W 360 - I don't trust any place that I am forced to drive to at midnight in Boise.

HANKIES - Lots of big farm hankies.

NOTEBOOK - There are lots of notes you want to take and messages to leave.

EAR PLUGS - If you are on the pre-mortuary ward, they help keep out the sounds.