Quotes About Convalescence

Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again.

It would be almost a moon, however, before he could leave the hospital—his attack of appendicitis had been a severe one. Young

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

I was cured all right.

His lordship seemed quite changed; he no longer appeared that apathetic being who had so astonished Aubrey; but as soon as his convalescence began to rapid, he again gradually retired into the same state of mind, and Aubrey perceived no difference from the former man, except that at times he was surprised to meet his gaze intently upon him, with a smile of malicious exultation playing upon his lips: he knew not why, but his smile haunted him.

Plictiseala? O convalescenta incurabila.

waiting for the sick feeling to pass

What's more, Eleanor's fever had gone away;

Bramblestar will need something to eat if he's to recover from this . . . whatever it is

He looked thin—after several heart surgeries,

Por entre cabeças se descobrindo ou se inclinando, a recolher gestos e palavras de conforto e simpatia, em meio ao bulício da cidade, gente a passar, a conversar, a rir, dona Flor caminhou com seu buquê de flores destinadas à campa de Vadinho. Ia em direção ao cemitério mas era na vida que de novo penetrava; ei-la de retorno, convalescente ainda.

A nurse," I said, "would be wearing a starched uniform, and she'd have a fever thermometer ready to jab into a patient's mouth at the first sign of acute convalescence.

then went to the small room where Uhtred lay. Except he was no longer Uhtred. He called himself Father Oswald now and I found him propped up in his bed with color in his cheeks.

Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

All that is left to one who grieves Is convalescence. No change of heart or spiritual Conversion, for the heart has changed And the soul has been converted To a thing that sees How much it costs to lose a friend it loved.

He mistook convalescence for indolence and resented it

La convalescenza è una purificazione e un rinascimento. Non mai il senso della vita è soave come dopo l'angoscia del male; e non mai l'anima umana più inclina alla bontà e alla fede come dopo aver guardato negli abissi della morte.

I got better.

did emerge from hospital

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

The weeks before he died, Mr Mohun Biswas, a journalist of Sikkim Street, St James , Port of Spain, was sacked. He had been ill for some time. In less than a year he had spent more than nine weeks at the Colonial Hospital and convalesced at home for even longer. When the doctor advised him to take a complete rest the 'Trinidad Sentinel' had no choice. It gave Mr Biswas three months' notice and continued, up to the time of his death, to supply him every morning with a free copy of the paper.

Getting better was a grief. One morning you woke up and your fever had fled. Your throat felt depressingly fine.

They had to recognize, Woods warned, that the law wanted to keep psychopathy and psychosis apart. If the psychopath were ever accepted as legally insane, then crime, judgment, and punishment would be replaced by antisocial act, therapy, and convalescence.