Important to also provide a supply of music beside the bed, plus whatever other electronic connections to the world you would be able to handle - internet, TV, maybe even a book although probably feel too rotten to read it. Things to distract you and make those long, long nights go by

Somebody should call you once a day to see if you are still ticking.

It really helps if you have a girlfriend who is a nurse and who comes to your house everyday after work, in her starched white skirt uniform and little white hat. Probably got the germs from her in the first place, because she comes from the hospital, so you have to weigh the plus and the minus; but if she stays all night to make sure you are okay, you are making the best of the situation, and that's all we can ask.