What should I not send to a hospital room?
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Skip the big fragrant lilies — they shed pollen onto bedding and tray tables and their scent fills a closed room. Skip anything heavily perfumed for the same reason: a patient who is nauseated cannot walk away from it, and neither can a roommate. Skip potted plants in soil if the patient's immune system is suppressed, which is the counterintuitive one, since cut stems in a clean vase are generally the safer choice. Skip latex balloons on the children's side at CHOC entirely. And skip anything tall: a shallow tray table and a narrow window ledge are the only surfaces in the room, so a compact design under about fourteen inches is what actually gets displayed.
Which hospitals near Fullerton do you deliver to?
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Providence St. Jude Medical Center at 101 East Valencia Mesa Drive is the one inside the city. Around it: Placentia-Linda Hospital at 1301 North Rose Drive in Placentia, five miles east; AHMC Anaheim Regional Medical Center at 1111 West La Palma Avenue and West Anaheim Medical Center at 3033 West Orange Avenue to the south, with Kaiser Permanente Anaheim Medical Center at 3440 East La Palma Avenue on the Canyon side; La Palma Intercommunity Hospital at 1901 Walker Avenue to the southwest; and PIH Health Hospital Whittier at 12401 Washington Boulevard over the county line. Further south in Orange, UCI Medical Center at 101 The City Drive South, CHOC at 1201 West La Veta Avenue and Providence St. Joseph at 1100 West Stewart Drive are all within the ring.
The floor said no flowers. What else can I do?
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Send to the house instead, and send it for the day the patient is expected home rather than today. Critical-care units, cardiac intensive care and newborn intensive care commonly decline flowers outright, and some cancer-care areas restrict them case by case — the nurses' station will tell you plainly if you call and ask. A home delivery is better anyway in that situation: it lasts longer than a few days in a warm room, the family sees it every time they walk through the kitchen, and nobody has to carry a vase of water out to the car at discharge. If the family is keeping vigil at the hospital, a delivery to their house still lands where they will sleep.
How much do get-well flowers cost in Fullerton?
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The listed arrangements in this selection start at $32.49. Delivery charges, taxes and optional extras are confirmed for the selected florist and recipient before payment.
Can you deliver to a Cal State Fullerton student who is sick?
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Yes, and the apartment is a better address than the campus. Cal State Fullerton sits at 800 North State College Boulevard in 92831 with about 40,000 students, most of them commuters, and the residence halls and the Nutwood and Chapman apartment complexes around the campus all take deliveries at a leasing office, package room or callbox rather than a door. Give the complex name, the unit number, the callbox name and a mobile number. Hope International University on East Nutwood works the same way. A student recovering in a shared apartment with no vase is a good case for an arrangement that arrives in its own vessel, which is how most of this shelf is built.
What holds up in a warm room or on a warm porch here?
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Inland north Orange County gets hot and, when the Santa Ana winds run in September and October, very dry. The stems that cope are the ones grown near here — snapdragon, spray chrysanthemum, alstroemeria, gerbera daisy, lisianthus and California stock. All of them hold in a heated hospital room, none of them sheds onto a tray table, and none carries enough scent to be a problem. Sunflowers work through late summer and read cheerful without perfume. For a home delivery to a house in 92833 or up on Bastanchury in 92835, ask for the shaded side of the entry rather than a west-facing step, and say whether an unattended leave is acceptable.