With the vets' help she said she nursed him back to health and "he has gone from strength to strength".

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Lin said he and the team did everything it could to get him back to health, but he cannot cut or jump.

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Circumstances conspire to place a seriously wounded Tristan on a deserted Irish beach, where Isolde secretly nurses him back to health without revealing her royal status.

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Meanwhile, my wife, who I initially feared would struggle with the pain of watching her husband face his mortality and the burden of nursing him back to health, has shown me just what strength is.

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During one of them, the closest thing in the movie to a love scene, Algren's eyes are opened wide by Taka (the Japanese actress and model Koyuki), a taciturn beauty who washes his wounds and nurses him back to health.

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In the more nuanced Obama era, Chavez cut a less assured and less influential figure, particularly as his health problems forced him to step back from the limelight.

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