"Sie gaben mir fünf Jahre zu leben, ich habe sieben Jahre geschafft", sagte er halbherzig, in seinem Bett im Heim für Palliativpflege Victor-Gadbois in Beloeil liegend, in dem er am Vortag angekommen war.
"They gave me five years to live, I've made it to seven," he says, with mixed emotions, lying in his bed at the Victor-Gadbois palliative care home in Beloeil, where he arrived the previous day.