Being stuck in the hospital for a long time can be very troubling. Not only can it be scary, it can even be boring. There will be endless time to deal with. People who have to be in the hospital for any reason for an extended time period will need to pass the time and also need to create an atmosphere that is not as cold and sterile. As a friend, one of the things you can do is try and help them improve their situation. While you can't always be there in the room, there are things you can do to help them out. Here are a few ways you can do this:

Visit The Florist And Pick Out Get Well Flowers

Hospital rooms tend to be very sterile and official. They might have tack boards on the wall where you can put up some photos, but other than that there are not many things you can do to liven up the space. You can't paint the walls, and you have a limited amount of decoration you can do. One way you can really improve the surroundings is to get your friend get well flowers. In fact, you could visit a florist and arrange for multiple deliveries over the course of your friends stay. That way your friend doesn't have the same vase of flowers for their whole stay. After a while, the flowers will begin to wilt, and so it is really cool if you can arrange for flowers to be brought in multiple times. You should choose flowers that are bright and lovely looking; flowers such as sunflowers and daisies. Try and stick away from flowers that have a funeral connotation such as lilies. You might also want to steer clear of very fragrant flowers such as lilacs. Other good ideas for get well flowers include tulips.

Portable Video Game System

One can only read so many books. If your friend loves video games, you might want to get them a video game system that they can hook up to the television in their room. They might not want to spend their time playing a video game on their smartphone or iPad. A bigger system would be really fun to get them. Some hospitals do have rules about hooking up large video game systems to their internal television systems, so it is important that you first check with the hospital administrators.