| Billy Martin once called plays by phone, from his hospital bed, while convalescing from a punctured lung. |
| I really got down to writing him a letter only when he was convalescing at a Boston clinic, after a stroke. |
| During house jobs, she contracted pulmonary tuberculosis, and while convalescing she spent a few months in South Africa, where her father was working as a medical missionary. |
| I was in New York that night, convalescing from various ailments and surgeries, to be sure, but I was there. |
| At present I am convalescing from what, by all accounts, was a rather spectacular heart attack. |
| Swann spends nine months convalescing morosely, only snapping out of it when his housekeeper, played with tight-lipped understatement by Sarah Lancashire, buys him a camera. |
