bedfast

Every now and then for a good many years he's had a bedfast spell.

Early in the new year he became bedfast and suffered excruciatingly at times.

I have a daughter in that room who has been ill and bedfast for more than two years.

She had barely recovered from the illness that kept her bedfast during the exciting days of the strike.

She had wondered about Parkins, still bedfast, but no inkling had come to her ears of his perfidious intentions toward herself.