Nurse (someone or something) back to health verb phrase
To take care of a sick person or animal until they're in good health.
I will never forget what she has done for me. She nursed me back to health all by herself when I got into an accident last year.
My brother saw a sick dog on the street. He decided to take it home and nursed it back to health.
If you say that you lick your wounds, you mean that you temporarily withdraw to recover from a failure or a scolding.
The verb "nurse" should be conjugated according to its tense.
A desire to do something, which is random, sudden and unaccountable
It seems that there is a blind impulse towards everything he does