LOL @ Colin...ah, that made me laugh.
My mom sold Mary Kay for a number of years, and I have friends who do Pampered Chef, Scentsy, etc. Granted, the amount of $$ you make is probably directly related to the amount of time you are able to put into building your network/selling, etc, which will be limited during the months you're in the hospital...but at least you would not have to report to a direct supervisor, take "time off" etc. My mom made good $$ from Mary Kay, but did have to invest quite a bit to really get her business off the ground...as for the others, I'm not sure what kind of income they would bring. Also, one draw back would be that they don't provide benefits/insurance.
I don't know anything about online jobs though, I have been curious about them myself, but there are so many scams out there I have been to hesitant to really research anything about them. Hopefully you get some responses that are more helpful than mine and we can all learn something <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">