nurse something through something

She never nursed a husband through cancer, only to watch him die.

After she nursed him through years of ill health, her husband died at 91.

He took the man in and nursed him through his illness.

I used to despair of ever nursing him through his adolescence.

It was she, he said, who nursed him through his grief.

Montreal took a 1-0 lead at 4:18 and nursed it through the first period.

She married again, had a baby and nursed her mother through the final stages of brain cancer.

The woman they described had nursed three or four people whom she loved, through a final illness.

Early in their relationship he nursed her through double pneumonia.

She had nursed her father through a lingering illness until the moment of his death a year and a half ago.