RBF Casualty Report

[davidbob]

Kenny Peerson, founder and spiritual leader of the Red Boat Fleet, is resting comfortably in a Little Rock hospital. He had his left hip replaced twice in Fort Smith this summer. He experienced a somewhat massive infection after the second surgery and had to have the hip removed at St Vincent's yesterday to clean out the infection.

He was in ICU when I got to the hospital, but was moved to a private room while I was there. He's pretty much back to his normal self mentally (by that I mean still totally bat sh!t crazy), but he doesn't have a left hip. The doctor put a "spacer" where his hip joint was until he recovers enough to have another surgery and put another hip back in.

If you want to send Kenny a message, post it here and I'll deliver it to him tomorrow (Wednesday) night. In addition to his open boater soulmates, I think he might particularly enjoy hearing from all you miserable braindead maggot deck boaters too (even though he's bed ridden, hooked up to an IV pole, and only has only one hip he's still twice as good a boater as any kwakhead).

[okieboater]

Get well quickly Kenny.

Been missing your always interesting posts, this must be why.

Speedy recovery and get back leading the RBF river trips, us Kwakheads miss you!

[RandyJ]

...miserable braindead maggot deck boaters

Hey, we got an upgrade!

[Cowper]

Having body parts repaired, then removed, now that's some bad $&*t!

I think about the only time I've actually been on the same river, same day with Kenny was years ago, a stellar day on Frog Bayou when we had the honor of sharing a shuttle ride in the back of somebody's pickup.

But like others, I've enjoyed the posts - tell that ol' dog to get better so we can paddle together again, or at the very least enjoy via shared trip reports!

And tell him if the hip doesn't get good enough, us kwakers are ready to strap his butt to a piece of plastic and make a kwaker out of him so he can still get on the water.

[Clif]

prayers, brother.

There has to be one of them Kenny classic songs in this third times the charm hip thing???

[davidbob]

I stopped by St. Vincent's at 6:30 a.m. on my way to the office this morning to see how he was doing. Apparently, Nurse Ratched has moved from Ft. Smith to Little Rock and is working the night shift at SVIMC.

Kenny: "I don't have a hip joint in that leg. Is it supposed to be crooked like that?"
Nurse: "You are not understanding me."
Kenny: I'm understanding you just fine. I'm asking you if my leg is supposed to be crooked?"
Nurse: "You are not understanding what I'm telling you."
Kenny: "I understand English. Do you?"
Door: "SLAM"
Diluadid Pump Button: "Click."
Kenny: "Ahhhhhh."

Kenny was snoring loudly so I left a Democrat-Gazette and a Starbucks house blend (they were out of weasel puke) on his bedside table.

(There's a good story about where a hospital in Fort Smith "hid" Kenny's continuously recording internal body temperature readout device, but I'll save that for a later time)

Thanks to Dave, Randy, Clif and Cowper for the replies so far - the rest of you need to quit lurking and start posting. I need material to help me distract him from another episode of Verbal Nurse Jousting tonight.

[ARzach]

...miserable braindead maggot deck boaters

Hey, we got an upgrade!

Yeah, I agree, I wasn't even aware we had brains to begin with!

[Roger]

What do we call him now, SwivelHips? Give the nurses hell, Kenny!

[Fish]

Remember, there are two kinds of boaters: those with decks and those with holes where their decks should be.

Hope you heal up real soon, open boater dude!

- Fish :)

[Zen B.]

We miss that scruffy smile down at the surf rocks. Get better real quick, amigo.

-Zen & Pam

[cmartin]

Don't the quakers run scout and then run sweep for the open boaters!! HAHA get well soon!

[davidbob]

Thanks for all the posts and private messages. Kenny appreciated all of them. He's been to rehab and is using a walker some. Hopefully he'll go home to Ft Smith tomorrow.

As bad as hospitals are, they're better than some Carnival Cruise Ships.

[Zen B.]

How's Kenny doing?