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Cinderella underwent a successful operation at VCA Lakewood Hospital and convalesced at a volunteer’s home for a month.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

During Novak’s mental-health ordeal, she convalesced at home with her parents, making slow progress on her book, “How to Weep in Public,” which was published by Crown in 2016.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Commonly, it’s been the other way around — the women brandishing a gold medal or World Cup crown while the men convalesced.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2021

Until the surge, the floor where they convalesced was reserved for all kinds of medical and surgical patients.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2020

For five years now she had convalesced in confinement, but she still had not healed.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill