Definitely add care for you to the list, as others have said. Karen first, but you second rather than you never.
Talking to people in hospitals is its own skillset. All of the "so what have you been doing lately?" methods of making the conversation go both ways fail utterly. You have to fall back on stuff that feels a lot more like speechifying than we're used to, and it can be intensely uncomfortable if you haven't practiced it, and sometimes even if you have. Tending to one's own person on their sickbed is different because the two (or N) of you are in it together, you've been doing the things, so you can make everyday conversation rather than Hello It Is Me The Notable Visitor conversation--long silences are more acceptable, and you're not there to provide the diversion from the everyday conversation the people on the scene are having. But yes, still going to be very different when it's lasting and indoors and just you.
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Talking to people in hospitals is its own skillset. All of the "so what have you been doing lately?" methods of making the conversation go both ways fail utterly. You have to fall back on stuff that feels a lot more like speechifying than we're used to, and it can be intensely uncomfortable if you haven't practiced it, and sometimes even if you have. Tending to one's own person on their sickbed is different because the two (or N) of you are in it together, you've been doing the things, so you can make everyday conversation rather than Hello It Is Me The Notable Visitor conversation--long silences are more acceptable, and you're not there to provide the diversion from the everyday conversation the people on the scene are having. But yes, still going to be very different when it's lasting and indoors and just you.