‘Miserable’ Boogsie anxious to go home: I live for my children

Asked if it was his music that made him want to live, Len “Boogsie” Sharpe,  arranger of the Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove, told his friend Nikki Borde that it was not his music but the thought of all of his children, as he went into surgery.

Sharpe’s condition has been improving following emergency surgery at the St Clair Medical Centre on Tuesday. He was removed from a respirator on Thursday but remains in the Intensive Care Unit, albeit the non-critical area of the private health facility. Borde told Newsday one of Boogsie’s first requests following surgery was to see their daughter, and he then asked to be taken home. She said Sharpe has a strong will and that is helping him improve rapidly. So much so that he is becoming “delightfully miserable.”

She said when she visited, Boogsie told her to go around the savannah to get coconut water for him because “they giving me, a big man like me, ice to eat.” Boogsie also asked for pelau and for Borde to return last evening to take him home. Borde again related: “If you don’t want to drop me home just give me $40 to take a taxi. Or rather, lend me your cell to call a taxi.”

Even while she was visiting yesterday, Borde said he told the doctor: “Dr, I will appreciate it if you can remove these tubes and let me go home.” Borde gleefully stated that he is getting very “miserable and agitated” as he is anxious to finish his tune. He even asked me to get his clothes for him to go home. With Sharpe giving trouble, demanding to leave the nursing home, the doctor has banned all visitors now because they say he has to rest.