convalesce

Their parents and grandparents convalesced there and sometimes died there, cared for by nurses who were part of the community.

Wadee lost track of his son after he was shot, but found him hours later, by coincidence, in one of a few tents set up near Nasser Hospital for convalescing patients.

The Pope was breathing on his own, without oxygen tubes, despite being told by his doctors to spend two months convalescing after 38 days in hospital with double pneumonia.

During their tour, they met with the convalescing Pope at the Vatican and enjoyed a state banquet in their honour.

And when he suffered a punctured lung against Manchester United on a tour of the States, he convalesced at the Los Angeles home of McElhenney.