“My hours were numbered. I was very scared,” playwright Michel Marc Bouchard wrote on Facebook Monday in a post announcing that he suffered a heart attack last week.

The 65-year-old said he felt “extreme pain” on Wednesday before collapsing to the ground. After being transported by ambulance, he underwent emergency surgery.

In a very touching message, the man who signed the plays Tom à la ferme and La nuit ou Laurier Gaudreault woke up recounts that this incident made him realize that he was a man “fulfilled all [his] life” .

“Now that I have a fully repaired heart, it’s time to proclaim to all those who have marked my personal and artistic life, all my gratitude for having made me a better man”, a- he writes.

At the same time, he would like to thank the coronary emergency and intensive care staff of the Montreal General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Cardiology Center of the McGill University Health Centre.

“Montreal is privileged to have an immigrant force of unique devotion. It is good press here to break the sugar on our hospital system, on immigrants and on Anglo-Montrealers. I received the best care in the world promulgated by a multi-ethnic team and Anglos who spoke to me all the time in French with the most beautiful accents”, he specifies.