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"You are of my family": Michel Drucker returns to see the caregivers who saved his heart

2021-06-04T12:26:44.105Z


The star host of France Télévisions, 78, returned to the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, to thank all those who


Bottles collide at the reception of the Georges-Pompidou European hospital in Paris (15th century).

No oxygen cylinders that day.

It was Michel Drucker who brought champagne and Lenôtre sweet treats.

More than eight months after his heavy heart operation, the star host of France Televisions returns with a smile.

“As a simple visitor this time, he insists before marking time.

You can't imagine that I'm coming back from there.

I suffered so much there.

"

Direction the third floor, that of the cardiology department, headed by Professor Albert Hagège, a pundit in the field.

"So how do you like me, boss?"

Drucker asks him.

Answer: “You have character, you.

You are in better shape than before.

The game was far from won, however.

"The operation involved a double-digit risk, which is a lot," says the specialist.

We had also mentioned what to do in the event of a vegetative state upon awakening.

"

"Mr. Diocard", a nickname to remain anonymous

The consultation stops there.

In a small committee, the 78-year-old ex-patient invited the nursing staff for a thank you drink.

In his luggage, also about twenty copies with a personalized word for each person crossed, from the stretcher bearer to the anesthetist, of his book “It will go better tomorrow”.

He recounts his hospitalization and his rehabilitation in great detail.

Including the times he wondered if the orderlies were commenting on his "private parts" in private.

“We can talk about it between us, but it's still professional,” slips one of them, while the credits of “Champs-Élysées” sound on a small enclosure.

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Others mention the nickname he used to remain anonymous and avoid leaks in the celebrity press: Fiacre Diocard.

"It's not every day that we have Drucker, it shouldn't be known," confides Professor Hagège.

As we do for other personalities or politicians.

"

“We called him Monsieur Diocard even though we all knew it was Michel Drucker,” says a nurse.

Except the younger ones who typed his name on Google.

“Since then, I have a hospitalized friend who calls himself Amédée Diocard,” adds the host in his Sunday best, who will celebrate 40 years of “Champs-Élysées” in prime time on France 2 at the end of the year.

PODCAST.

Behind the scenes of his confidential interview on his heart operation

His postoperative hallucinations are also coming back to the table. "When you split your breastbone with a saw, you are inevitably in another world afterwards", continues the head of the service. On the resuscitation side, we point out its inconsistencies. "He no longer had much idea of ​​the time and wondered if he could come back to TV," reports an intern. While we were just wondering if he was going to live. "

They then praise the couscous that Zoubida, a nursing assistant, prepared for Michel Drucker. “He was the one who ordered me directly,” recalls the latter. He was very weak and did not eat anything at all

(Editor's note: he lost 11 kg, which he has since regained)

. Michel Drucker was a kind, calm and discreet patient who never complained despite his relapses. In the small meeting room, there is a Romanian nurse and another Moldovan nurse. "They did the same course as my parents," said the host of France 2, whose father, a doctor, would have been "proud" of him. "The Slavs are fighters, we knew you were going to get by", they answer.

“You can't imagine that I'm coming back from there.

I suffered so much there, ”Michel Drucker told the hospital staff.

LP / Olivier Lejeune

To Paul Achouh, the surgeon who performed his triple bypass, we ask what it feels like to operate on a TV star.

“I had social pressure, of course,” he says.

But once in the OR, he's a patient like any other.

I know what to do.

And since it was an unscheduled life-saving surgery, there was even less time to stress.

"

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It was Drucker's turn to show his “gratitude” and “gratitude” to the hundred or so hospital staff who took care of him for more than two months.

“I am the oldest presenter in all countries.

Now, I intend to join the centenarians' club, ”he rejoices.

And to continue: "In front of you, I was not leading off.

Today, I resumed my job, a stressful job, a cruel job.

A real passion too.

As is your case.

If I am here, it is largely thanks to you, who have looked into my not trivial case.

Here, it's a bit like my second home.

You are from my family.

I found fishing again, but I have not forgotten.

I have memory.

"

The new ambassador of the chain of hope

Facing him, his surgeon does not miss a beat.

"What he has just done, we needed it here," assures Paul Achouh.

We can feel the distress since the Covid.

Under the pressure and the extended hours, some left.

Others have been turned upside down or have followed 24-hour training courses to switch to sheaves.

There is tension and not enough recognition.

"

Michel Drucker took advantage of his visit to the Georges-Pompidou hospital on Wednesday, June 2, to officially become the ambassador of the Chain of Hope association.

Here he visits a young man from Burkina Faso.

LP / Olivier Lejeune

The little party over, Michel Drucker puts on a new blouse. That of ambassador of the chain of hope, which offers access to care to children in poor countries. A position, vacant since the death of Mireille Darc in 2017, which will be formalized on June 9 in the presence of the founder of this humanitarian association Alain Deloche and its president Dr Eric Cheysson. Here is the dean of the PAF in the room of a young patient from Burkina-Faso, operated five days earlier for a rare disease of the aorta.

"It was a matter of days, he had a bomb in his chest," explains Paul Achouh. "A mission like this, I couldn't refuse," says Drucker. As long as I don't get sent to Kabul too often. In the hallway, other nurses recognize him. "So, how is Mr. Diocard?" "Him, laughing out loud:" Fiacre Diocard is gone, Michel Drucker is back ".

Source: leparis

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