He had hip surgery in October 2006 and was making a difficult recovery.

Waiting to seek treatment for depression may mean a longer and more difficult recovery.

Enough bankruptcies, in turn, make a recovery extra difficult to achieve.

Gibson often visited in the hospital during his long, difficult recovery.

It went two inches into his brain and involved an even longer and more difficult recovery.

Destruction of any two tires makes recovery extremely difficult, and in most cases impossible.

In a sense, his difficult recovery might be the best thing that happened to him.

Increasingly, people are becoming addicted to both drugs, making recovery longer and more difficult.

He has had a considerably more difficult recovery than Konstantinov.

I am certainly not alone in wishing I'd been prepared for a difficult recovery.