Convalescent
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A person recovering from illness.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness. Of convalescence or convalescents (see below).
Recovering
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
Example sentence: I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.