Impede or impede means to get in the way of the progress of; to obstruct or hinder--
Failure to follow the doctor's advice will impede the patient's recovery.
Bickering only serves to impede any progress toward an agreement.
Impend or impend means to be waiting or near at hand; to threaten or menace--
What lurked in the hall? Did danger impend?
Did sorrow impend? He didn't know.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"If you don't take the medicine, a relapse might impend, and that would impede your recuperation."
Note--the most commonly used form of "impend" is "impending", to describe something that threatens or menaces--
Over his head hung the shadow of impending doom.
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