3 Metaphors for convalescences

Then she had taken him jealously from the care of his attendant, and had nursed and guarded him herself day and night, until even convalescence was a thing of the past.

"He will come round presently, he will do splendidly now till we get him to bed; and then his convalescence will be merely the matter of a while of rest.

The convalescence of the Queen was the signal for a succession of festivities, and the whole winter was spent in gaiety and dissipation; banquets, ballets, and hunting-parties succeeded each other with bewildering rapidity; and so magnificent were several of the Court festivals that even some of the gravest historians of the time did not disdain to record them.

3 Metaphors for  convalescences