(June 9, 2016) Pat Renaud, the president of the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors, missed several public meetings last month because an undisclosed illness.
That included the May 26 directors’ session when he participated via phone and joked that he was not up to sitting in on a full meeting – which can be notoriously long – in person.
Last Thursday, Renaud was back in action, attending the comprehensive planning committee meeting and seeming to be generally in good health and spirit. Renaud is the liaison to that committee.
“I had a sudden onset [of pain] on a Saturday four weeks ago,” he said just before the start of the meeting. “They took me to the hospital and found out that I had a very high temperature – 103.5 – and I had very high elevation of lactic acid, which is bad. If I had gone on for another couple of hours they might not have been able to reverse it.”
Renaud was diagnosed with sepsis and cellulitis in his left leg, causing it to become red and “very swollen.”
“They treated me with antibiotics and kept me in the hospital for five days. I kept saying, ‘I’m all right’ and they looked at me and went, ‘No, you’re not all right,’” he said. “I just finished my last antibiotics about four days ago and it’s much, much better now. I’m actually getting around all right now, but I’m still a little weak. It took a lot out of me and I can’t do more than one thing a day.”
The condition was not preexisting and he expects to make a full recovery, he said.
“I’m about 95 percent back,” he said. “I can’t do a lot of activities, or I get tired after about an hour or so.
“This meeting is only an hour, Frank,” Renaud quipped, looking at Frank Daly, the new chair of the committee.
Renaud said he did not expect to miss any more meetings, although he does have a family vacation planned for the end of June. His son, Chris Renaud, is the director of the feature film “The Secret Life of Pets” staring Albert Brooks, Louis C.K., Kevin Hart and Ellie Kemper.
A proud papa, Renaud plans to travel to New York to watch the premier.
“This is about our fourth premier that we’ve gone to,” he said. “We’re looking forward to it.”
As for Ocean Pines business, Renaud said the board would soon set a date for a special meeting to address several capital purchases that met with 3-3 tie votes during the last regular session.
“There’s going to be a special meeting – I don’t know when,” he said. “I asked [Executive Assistant] Michelle [Bennett] to handle it because there’s so many balls in the air. It’s like trying to herd cats.”
Renaud tried to convince the seven directors to hold the vote by email, which is permissible under the rules as long as there is unanimous consent. One of the directors, however, apparently objected.
“We’re going to try and get together and work this through,” he said. “But it’s good to feel better, and it’s good to be back.”
That included the May 26 directors’ session when he participated via phone and joked that he was not up to sitting in on a full meeting – which can be notoriously long – in person.
Last Thursday, Renaud was back in action, attending the comprehensive planning committee meeting and seeming to be generally in good health and spirit. Renaud is the liaison to that committee.
“I had a sudden onset [of pain] on a Saturday four weeks ago,” he said just before the start of the meeting. “They took me to the hospital and found out that I had a very high temperature – 103.5 – and I had very high elevation of lactic acid, which is bad. If I had gone on for another couple of hours they might not have been able to reverse it.”
Renaud was diagnosed with sepsis and cellulitis in his left leg, causing it to become red and “very swollen.”
“They treated me with antibiotics and kept me in the hospital for five days. I kept saying, ‘I’m all right’ and they looked at me and went, ‘No, you’re not all right,’” he said. “I just finished my last antibiotics about four days ago and it’s much, much better now. I’m actually getting around all right now, but I’m still a little weak. It took a lot out of me and I can’t do more than one thing a day.”
The condition was not preexisting and he expects to make a full recovery, he said.
“I’m about 95 percent back,” he said. “I can’t do a lot of activities, or I get tired after about an hour or so.
“This meeting is only an hour, Frank,” Renaud quipped, looking at Frank Daly, the new chair of the committee.
Renaud said he did not expect to miss any more meetings, although he does have a family vacation planned for the end of June. His son, Chris Renaud, is the director of the feature film “The Secret Life of Pets” staring Albert Brooks, Louis C.K., Kevin Hart and Ellie Kemper.
A proud papa, Renaud plans to travel to New York to watch the premier.
“This is about our fourth premier that we’ve gone to,” he said. “We’re looking forward to it.”
As for Ocean Pines business, Renaud said the board would soon set a date for a special meeting to address several capital purchases that met with 3-3 tie votes during the last regular session.
“There’s going to be a special meeting – I don’t know when,” he said. “I asked [Executive Assistant] Michelle [Bennett] to handle it because there’s so many balls in the air. It’s like trying to herd cats.”
Renaud tried to convince the seven directors to hold the vote by email, which is permissible under the rules as long as there is unanimous consent. One of the directors, however, apparently objected.
“We’re going to try and get together and work this through,” he said. “But it’s good to feel better, and it’s good to be back.”