Big birthday being spent in hospital

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My best mates lovely mammy is going through a lot of serious medical issues right now (cancer, heart attacks amongst others) and unfortunately we've just found out that she will be in hospital for her 70th birthday next week. How can we make this special?

She's in a side room isolated due to catching covid on top of everything else and the hospital staff are on board with doing what they can to help. Restrictions are no candles but I think everything else is pretty much fair game (we will check before we go ahead with whatever we plan). Visitors are allowed at their own risk so we are OK on that front.

Please help and throw as many ideas as possible on how we can celebrate this amazing ladies milestone birthday 🎂 🥳 thank you x

My Dad had his 70th in hospital but it was a cottage hospital. We just took a few party bits to eat and a cake. He was in a ward so we shared it with his room mates. A few balloons and maybe some music? Photo albums to look at?

As a nurse the first thing I was going to say was please no candles!!! But I see you’ve already covered that. You can get LED candles. You wouldn’t believe the amount of people that we have to take candles off before they blow the place up. 🙈

You can decorate the room. Flowers generally aren’t allowed either.

Cake, banners and balloons.

Could you record some video messages from family and friends who can't be there?

Thank you so much for these ideas we can definitely incorporate all of these

Hopeful bump for even more please 🙏🏻 this wonderful lady has been through so much and deserves the world ❤️

A posh scrap book with her birthday cards stuck inside and a message from each card giver? . Easier than opening up lots of envelops and less messy (rubbish etc) also easier to keep the room tidy and clean. Easy to flick through and look at. Could add photos from her past and turn it into ‘the big red book’?

The only thing I would say is to make sure lots of visitors don’t all arrive at the same time - even if it is a side room. This happened when my husband was in hospital and suddenly everything spilled into the ward and was quite disturbing to patients, other visitors and the staff. But a lovely idea to make it special with cake and some decorations to cheer your friend’s mum up , no fun being in hospital , particularly on a special day. Perhaps if she has no restrictions on what she can eat you could also take in her favourite meal for her tea or nibbles / a mini afternoon team to make it extra special, or would she like it if you / her daughter did her nails or her hair ?