Hey David ~

WHAT Hospital are you going to be in????

Have you checked with the Hospital to see IF they have an
E-mail Delivery "Service" for Patients?

Many hospitals are offering it now -
They fix up the Volunteers with a hospital-owned puter & printer,
and a special E-mail Address.

Friends & Relatives can sent E-mails to that "Patient" address -
and the Volunteers will Print & Deliver it to the Patient's room.

I did it once (NOT a P-burg hospital) and they got delivered
the same day I sent them!
But I DID have to put the ROOM # and patient's FULL First & Last
name in the "Subject" line so they knew where to deliver them.

(And of course the content is NOT "private"!)
It usually only works ONE-way - IN-coming TO the patient;
no way to handle replies FROM the patient.

/s/ Phre