Michel Drucker escaped it narrowly. The presenter had to be hospitalized in September 2020 and had a series of health problems: sepsis, risk of amputation, triple bypass then infection of his scar … After six difficult months and many rehabilitation sessions, the host did his big return to television in Roll on Sunday Sunday March 28, 2021. The star of the Paf is much better as the viewers have seen. Once again on his feet, Michel Drucker decided to recount his fight in a book entitled It will be better tomorrow (Ed. Robert Laffont) and published Thursday, April 29, 2021. The star of the small screen talks about his hospitalization, without ignoring the most intimate details. Very weakened, Michel Drucker indeed had to put his life in the hands of caregivers, who washed, dressed and helped to defecate for many weeks.
“I lost my privacy. Here, I have become this rag that we dress or undress, that we wash, that we rub, that we make urinate before sitting on the potty like a child of sixty – ten years sounded “, he writes in his book. Difficult for the presenter to let the nurses and nursing aides take care of him like this … Michel Drucker, who felt humiliated during these few weeks, even began to have a fear: that the latter comment and compare his private parts once back home.
“The grôôsse or the p’tite commission, Monsieur Diocard?”
To keep a minimum of privacy and avoid the paparazzi during these extremely difficult times, Michel Drucker had, however, planned an assumed name within the hospital: Fiacre Diocard. Fiacre, because he was admitted there on August 30, the day of Saint Fiacre, and “Diocard”, which means “cardio” in slang. “The grôôsse or the p’tite commission, Monsieur Diocard?“, asked the caregivers during his stay. A sentence that remained engraved in his memory and that he insisted on transcribing in his book.
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