The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - A gruesome accident during what should have been a routine operation nearly killed hockey man-turned-parliamentarian Jacques Demers this summer.

The frail-looking Conservative senator has gone public to describe his brush with death.

Now resting at his Montreal-area home, Demers has lost 43 pounds this summer and even his voice is sounding a little thinner.

http://www.thehockeynews.com/article...g-surgery.html

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Demers is somewhat of a legend in Montreal, you should have seen all the posts about him on the RDS.CA boards this summer, it was incredible. Hopefully someone shows him that, he'll see how appreciated he is