Kenny’s service records confirm that she was assigned temporarily on two occasions to the Australian Auxiliary Hospitals at Harefield Park and Southall while awaiting reassignment to her next voyage. It is likely that she observed advanced rehabilitation techniques whilst working in these hospitals. In 1919 Kenny was honourably discharged and awarded a pension Return to Queensland Following her discharge from the AANS Kenny returned to Nobby to live with her mother. In June 1919 she volunteered to assist for two months at a temporary isolation hospital in Clifton, set up to care for victims of the 1918 flu pandemic. When the epidemic subsided, Kenny travelled to Guyra to recuperate. In October 1920, believing she was dying, she travelled to Europe to seek medical attention and visit Lourdes. Her ailments were probably psychosomatic as she remained fit and healthy until she developed Parkinson’s Disease in her late 60s. In May 1921 Kenny returned to Nobby. She was unable to work as a nurse due to her lack of qualifications but was active in the local Red Cross. In 1922 she was summoned to Guyra to care for Daphne Cregan, the daughter of Amelia and William Cregan, who was severely disabled with what was known then as cerebral diplegia. Daphne described her treatment as consisting of daily salt baths, sulphur baths, exercise performed in the bath, passive exercises on a table, massage, and the use of bark splints on her arms and legs. After 3 years of therapy Daphne was able to walk with the aid of crutches and lead a productive life. Kenny's treatment of Daphne, plus her wartime nursing of the sick and wounded, was the foundation for her later work of rehabilitating polio victims. In April 1925, Kenny was elected as the first president of the Nobby branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association. She also remained an active member of the local first aid service. In May 1926 she was called to provide first aid to Sylvia Kuhn, a young girl who had been injured in a farming accident. The child’s injuries were sufficiently serious to warrant her transportation from Nobby to a hospital in Toowoomba. Witnesses confirm that Kenny improvised a rigid stretcher from a cupboard door. The improvised device protected the child’s injured limbs and improved her comfort, thereby reducing the risk of shock during the journey. Kenny later improved and patented the stretcher for use