bedfast

I mind now when she was tuk with her last spell and laid bedfast fer eighteen months, she used to tell the preacher, when he'd come to see her and pray and go on, 'at she could die happy ef she could on'y be with 'em all agin in their love-feasts and revivals.

He has been bedfast for a long time.

Being bedfast with lumbago must be mighty trying to the temper.

Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.

After having been obliged to give up his dental practice, Blaiberg was bedfast.