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  OTTAWA -- It’s the reunion Gatineau's Peter Simard and his loved ones have been waiting for.  "It’s nice to be home and just to come outside, the way I am right now is just fantastic," said Simard.  Just months ago, the 59-year-old was at death’s door. He contracted COVID-19 in August and was put into an induced coma on a ventilator for two-and-a-half months.  His family was told he going to die, but Simard pulled through and after months in rehab, he’s finally home.  "Could you imagine being away eight-and-a-half months from your home, your family?" he said. "And with C...

  GATINEAU -- In an induced coma and on a ventilator after contracting COVID-19, Peter Simard was at death’s door.  “I think I was a day from dying,” Simard says. “He had the most severe form of COVID,” adds his wife, Celine Lafreniere. “His lungs were finished.” But nearly nine months since he was diagnosed, the Gatineau man is in recovery.  On Aug. 18 last year, Simard, 59, left work early because he wasn’t feeling well. He went to get tested for COVID-19 and two days later learned he had tested positive. According to Lafreniere, that’s when things took a turn fo...