A couple of weeks ago, former Montreal Canadiens tough guy Georges Laraque was running five or six days a week as he trained for a marathon.
Now, the former NHL enforcer’s biggest challenge is trying to breathe clearly as he fights COVID-19 from a hospital on Montreal’s South Shore. “Now I can’t even get up without losing my breath.
It’s insane,” he said. In a series of videos from his hospital bed, the 43-year-old, said he began feeling symptoms last Sunday, at a time he was helping to deliver groceries to vulnerable people in his community.
Over the next days, his condition deteriorated. RELATED: Quebec will continue to see ‘a lot of deaths’ amid coronavirus pandemic, premier says “I have pneumonia in both my lungs, they’re affected by