I just got out of the hospital last week. I was lucky. My parents visited every night and one night I had a friend visit as well. Some of the barriers for people coming to visit me is that the hospital was over an hour away from where I live: between one and a quarter hours to one and a half hours, and also the visiting hours were only 6:15 PM to 7:45 PM. So that was a barrier for others. Also since I couldn't have my cell phone, a lot of my friends didn't even know I was in the hospital until afterwards because I don't have their phone numbers memorized. I would have liked to have more visitors more often but the hospital didn't allow that. HUGS Kit