Hey thanks everyone! To be honest, it hadn't even occurred to me that I
wouldn't be allowed to bring in my own clothes! I know my family will need to launder them for me so I know, therefore, that I'm allowed them at King's.
I'm already planning on bringing in plenty of pyjamas and loungewear, plus a new dressing gown and slippers, my iPhone, my laptop with a 3G card (the rooms have tvs and wifi, but I'm assuming the latter isn't free and my 3G is a good deal) and an external harddrive. So I can watch dvds on my computer, but I'm also bringing a tiny portable sewing machine along with me, too, along with packets of projects to make that I've been assembling over the last month or so. I absolutely love to sew, and I can't imagine going a week without sewing something, let alone six, so my future in-laws got me this great little machine I can pick up with one hand. And as you'd expect, I'm sewing up a bunch of caps out of teeshirt material before I go in (it's on my to-do list for the long bank holiday weekend).
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I am bringing cotton PJ's and all things that button or zip up the front. I have been raiding my husbands closet for large button up cotton shirts.
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Is it really important that they close up the front? I've not had a Hickman line yet but I figured they'd be able to access it from a teeshirt neck - am I wrong?
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All toiletries I am bringing are new and unopened.
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Is this necessary, too? Because I'm thinking that you'll use them when you're there for chemo and you still have some germs on you, so how is that any different from using them a week before you get in? (sorry, I'm not trying to play devil's advocate, I'm just trying to understand as it's the first I've heard this stuff!)
whoa, you get a treadmill in your room? I was feeling pretty good about having a tv and an en suite!
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Oh and a soft sleep mask in case the light is too bright..
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oh I sleep with my eyes half open so I wear one at home anyway. I do miss the basement bedroom I had a few years ago!
I'm also wondering about stuff like towels, but I suppose I need to email my nurse specialist about a packing list anyway. All they've said to me about it so far have been 1. Bring a soft toothbrush and 2. you can pretty much bring in whatever you want to pass the time.
I'm planning on working my way through all five seasons of The Wire. That's a season a week or thereabouts.
