original: She finally found him in a hospital bed in Reggio Emilia, ill with a fever and subsisting on a daily bowl of chicory coffee and bread crust.
simplifications: She found him in a hospital bed in Reggio Emilia. He was ill with a fever and eating only chicory coffee and bread crust. He was ill with a fever when she found him. He had been eating bread crust and chicory coffee daily. She finally found him in a hospital bed in Reggio Emilia. He was ill with a fever and surviving on one bowl of chicory coffee and bread crust per day. She finally found him in a hospital bed in Reggio Emilia. He was sick with fever and living on a once a day bowl of chicory coffee and bread crust. After a lot of searching she found him in a hospital in Reggio Emilia. He was sick with a fever. He was only eating bread crust and drinking coffee once a day. She found him in a hospital. He was sick and living on coffee and bread crusts. She finally found him in a hospital bed in Reggio Emilia. He was down with a fever and feeding daily on a bowl of chicory coffee and bread crust. She finally found him in a hospital in Reggio Emilia, ill with a fever and living on a bowl of chicory coffee and bread crust each day. She finally found him in Reggio Emilia's hospital bed, sick with a fever and subsisting on a daily bowl of chicory coffee and bread crust. She eventually found him in a hospital bed in Reggio Emilia, sick with a fever and living on a daily bowl of chicory coffee and bread crust.