Oh @allyjay - I remember taking a pashmina on the second visit, too. Height of Summer but during the first stay I was often huddling under a blanket. I don't know what the hospital you are going to is like @wonk but the one I was in had a garden and my surgeon (not the nursing staff) was very happy for me to to outside and walk around when I got cabin fever. And it certainly beat doing laps of the corridor. But I still had to keep the compression stockings on so I needed easy to put on shoes that would fit over the stockings.