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From Season 10, Episode 4: A New Home For Babs
Whitney might be overdoing it when it comes to Babs' temporary new apartment.
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You can overdo it and then you can take away okay, she needs a dining table and four chairs.
Well, she doesn't have a dining room.
You just got a living room, daddy, there's a little dining area right on the other side of the of the.
Do you think, do you think that I did not do the interview? Did you look at the floor plan dad? Yes, I did the interactive planning tool and measured everything to a tee.
Oh did you make? Do you think I'm brand new? This is a one bedroom apartment and my sister looks like she's moving into like a three-story house, there's so much in our driveway.
It's also like a 75-inch tv.
It's a little big.
I don't know if you got a big enough truck or not nice to meet you nice to meet you nice to meet you.
I wouldn't do your job for all the money in the world.
Hauling furniture up and down stairs hunter will.
Take you up point out the the big furniture- and I guess we'll start with that and then just this stuff here, yeah cool! Okay, thank you.
Let's go follow! You I am glad the movers have finally showed up, because, even though my dad thinks that I don't know what I'm doing, it's not my first rodeo and I have literally spent days mapping out every inch of my mother's apartment and now that the movers are here, everything is just going to fall into place, and tomorrow all of this will be better.
Oh, it's cute well they're putting the roof on.
So you can hear that that's certainly over okay, oh yeah.
What do you think they watch in the they have this yeah, these four people in here right now living with this in her bedroom? Hmm, the bedroom, is a bit small.
How big is that bed? I wonder I mean it's gonna.
Go this way right, yeah, I think so now I will say this.
The floor plan said it was approximate, and that was an understatement.
I am confusion I had diagrams.
There was a tool on there where you could slide it to like put your little, the sizes of your furniture, and I had it all planned out- and the first thing I know is that there is nothing going in that bedroom, but a bed she doesn't need two night stands.
I just that's what we packed did we get? We got four chairs that go with that table.
We don't think we need four.
I don't think four will fit, build the table first and then we'll see okay, so we need to build the table first, then we need to build the couch uh.
I'm scared, okay, because I took this on and I did all this furniture and I bought this couch.
I bought this tv.
I got this stuff and now I'm looking at this square.
That does not look how it did on the internet, and I do not know where this is gonna go.
I'm gonna be real.
Okay, I don't know.
I think it's this one with the wreath right here: oh okay, yeah yeah after you, okay.
Well, let's start outside all right, let's start outside, so we saw that on the way in someone approaches, they'll know who they're dealing with.
I thought we were gonna try to keep stray men away from this door.
It's gonna you're gonna, hear a lot of wheelchairs going beep beep backing it up.
I am so excited my mom moves.
Oh my god, I'm gonna cry.
Surprise.
Surprise! My mom moves into abbotswood tomorrow morning, right here, you'll see hinchey's automatic food bowl and henshi's automatic water bowl.
It's been eight weeks since my mother had her stroke and we are now about to do what the doctors warned us at one time was something that we would probably never be doing, and that is welcoming her back home.
This is for her snacks is where the chocolates go.
Yes, I just can't wait to see her.
I can't wait to see her out in the world because there was a big chance.
You know two months ago that she was never leaving that hospital alive and then dad these are for mom's bibs, because when she goes down to the dining room, you don't want to have a towel around herself, so they're pretty and then look what we got for you, because mom doesn't want to wear a bib by herself.
I could put a jacket on and then and look at this.
This is a crumb catcher.
Now that we're in here by ourselves, can we take our masks off yeah yeah.
I really feel very confident that this move is going to be good for mom and I also just feel so nervous.
You know I feel, like I'm, I'm like putting my daughter on the school bus for the first time or something because mom is really a homebody and I just so want her to enjoy her time there.
Well, I want to try out this couch.
First of all, I want to see if you did a good job.
Okay, it's nice, okay and then here we have some candles for the vibe dad to the left.
You will see her extra pillow there down by her chair is, for her hand to rest her hand on this unexpected stroke that bab's had has challenged us all, but for babs to uh make the progress that she made.
Uh gave us all a lot of uh hope.
Babs is well on the way to being back to the beds that we all know and love tomorrow's graduation day.
So, but today was an emotional day for you mom, you know knowing she's coming here tomorrow.
She took pictures with all the therapists they all got behind her because she's had this journey with these uh therapists.
There's a real bond there, because she's been through a lot and she's accomplished a lot, a lot better outcome than what we were dealing with early on that started out, laying in a bed with her mouth open, and that was about it.
I was trying to share a picture with hunter and he couldn't even look at it.
So you, okay! What's up, it's been a long road to get her here and I just I just wanted to be really happy, but she's gonna be to think that two months ago I thought I was gonna, be burying her and now you know she's going off to this little new adventure.
I got really stressed out decorating her place and everything because I just wanted it's not home, but I wanted it to feel as much like home as possible.
I love her so much and I want this to be so good for her.
I just I don't want her to be nervous or timid, and I want her to feel accepted and happy.
You know, I don't know why I'm so sad, why are you just being happy and excited? No, I am happy.
I mean this, you know should be something that she's thrilled with.
I don't know you just try to do something for her and you just want her.
You just want it to be right.
You want her to be happy and well I'll.
Tell you right now.
This couldn't be more right.
So don't worry about that.
This is pretty right.
Okay, I can't tell you how much of a relief it is to have my mother going to have its wood.
The stress level is like way down here right now so, and it's been a very stressful two months since she had the stroke, I mean just constant stress so to get abbott's wood and have that taken care of just I mean you know just you can breathe.
You know it's easier to breathe.
I'm sitting here.
Thinking about you know just the day it happened, and I'm thinking about the doctor saying she's not going to make it and and for us to be here right now and are moving in here tomorrow, and this place looks so good and this facility being so nice, and everything like this is.
This is really special mm-hmm everything's pointing up yeah.
She doesn't love it.
Come here, love you love you.
I know you put your heart and soul into it.
Sweetheart.
We are so thrilled that she is on the earth, and that is all we need.
So this is just like a privilege.
You may come, do your apartment in it later.
Actually, I hope we can look forward to happier times it's been so long since we've been together.
I could not have asked for a more perfect and wonderful life's partner cheers you.
FAQs
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Does Babs recover on My Big Fat Fabulous Life? ›While the virus looked set to complicate Babs' recovery, a new clip from Episode 2 of My Big Fat Fabulous Life Season 10, exclusive to Newsweek, shows that Babs surprises her whole family by making a miraculous recovery.
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Is Babs ok now? ›Barbara “Babs” Thore, star of My Big Fat Fabulous Life, has died aged 76, her daughter announced. Whitney Thore shared an Instagram post on Thursday night (8 December) confirming that Barbara had died of cerebral amyloid angiopathy, which can lead to haemorrhaging in the brain.
Did Babs have a 3rd stroke? ›
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What day did Barbara Thore pass away? ›June 22, 1946 - December 7, 2022
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