My son goes to KU Medical Center in KC. It's a full hospital, with just one part of one floor as the pediatric area. He has his own room, usually no fridge, but there is a fridge that patients and families can use, so we bring lots of extra treats in. We always request meal tickets as well as the meals. Joe is listed as needing high calories, so this allows us to use the tickets down in the cafeteria and snack area to get extras for snack times when main cafeteria is closed. We bring lots of games, art supplies, video game stuff etc as there usually is just little kid stuff available (Joe's almost 16 now). you can check out a laptop or video game system, but there are very few available, so we usually bring our own. Joe's in for 14 days usually, so if he gets one of the bigger rooms we even bring in a folding card table for eating on, playing games, art activities, etc. The room has a couch that makes into a little bed for mom, so it works out well.
