How do I effectively support hospitalized friends during this virus? Usually I would visit with food and entertainment, but I’m not allowed to visit. Now what?

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Gift cards to things like GrubHub or something that will help them live easier when they get home for recovery. Care package with comfy PJs, snacks, games, and a heating pad or other first aid things that will help them out. Flowers because they’re pretty to look at. FaceTime and play games if they’re up to it. There’s also an app called JQBX that’s basically a chat room, but you invite people to the room and they can each take a turn being a DJ. Get a few friends together and send a link out to join a room all at the same time. Play music and talk shit.

If they have kids, offer to babysit for free either now or when they’re discharged to give them peace and quiet and their SO a break. Offer to run errands and get groceries and meds or anything the family needs that they’re having a hard time leaving the house to get while the other parental unit is hospitalized.

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I’ve been hospitalized for a couple weeks before (not for COVID) very ill. It was a comfort that my friends were helping my husband and kids out so it was something I didn’t have to worry about. Even if it was just dropping off some easy to make Mac and cheese and sandwich stuff, or giving my husband a break, it helped keep my stress levels down. A good friend of mine didn’t ask, she just did - best present I got was her helping them. I guess we all take on stress differently though, and what was wonderful for me may not be the right thing for someone else.

Send them videos of yourself? Maybe even doing funny things? Play on Houseparty?

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