FReeper Bahbah has passed away

May 15, 2010 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Sad news. I just heard from her daughter that FReeper Bahbah passed away this morning from a ruptured aneurysm while making breakfast. Her family was with her when she passed and she was peaceful.

Rest in peace dear FRiend.

Prayers for her family and loved ones.

[Cheerio]

Rest in peace, Bahbah. You are in a much better place. Condolences to the family.

[McGruff]

"Hatch is beyond compromised. He became best buddies with a man who killed a girl and lied about it...

That's the Bahbah we knew and loved. She wasn't a wallflower when she had something to say. :)

[ChicagoConservative27]

RIP dear FRiend.

[saveliberty]

That’s beautiful, Leilani!

I don’t know if she invented “THUD”, but she used it whenever it was appropriate. :)

[pillut48]

My mother died from an aortic aneurysm in 1990. She had a physical the week before and was doing great. I spoke to her on a Friday, we were going to go to lunch for her birthday (which was during the next week) on Saturday—on Saturday morning I got a call from my brother that she had died during the night, which was a complete shock to all of us. My stepfather said she had awakened during the night saying something didn’t feel right, he had been a medic in the Army, so he rushed her to the ER. They took her away to an exam room, came back to him 10 minutes later saying she was gone. No pain, just peacefully gone. He didn’t even get to say goodbye, none of us did. My stepfather never recovered from that, to his dying day. :*(

We buried her on her birthday. She was 53 years old.

I am so sorry to hear about Bahbah. :*( God is holding her now, and that is a bittersweet joy for those of us left behind. May the Holy Spirit comfort all of us who will miss Bahbah.

I am also praying that Bahbah’s family will recover from the shock of losing her like this. Aneurysms are sneaky, shocking things. :*(

[trisham]

I am so sorry. Condolences to her family and friends.

Prayers for all are on the way.

[trisham]

Thanks for the ping.

[DoctorBulldog]

May God’s love be with her family while she is with God.

[cubreporter]

Am sorry for your loss. Almost lost a family member to one of those as well. She had a long, hard recovery but she made it. Was not the same as your beloved mother so not sure what hers was exactly. They are awful though and come on you in a flash. That’s the bad part.
Feel really sad for all of you that you never got to say goodbye. I didn’t either with either of my folks. That IS hard to say the least. I take comfort though knowing they know why I couldn’t say goodbye and that one day instead of goodbye we will all be able to say Hello!!

[pillut48]

Thank you. It was the opposite for my father, who had been sick for many, many years (my entire childhood)...but at least we got to say goodbye to him, even though we were surprised when he went. It was ‘normal’ for him to go in the hospital then come home, so the last time we were shocked when he didn’t come home. He was 39. :-( Wish that I’d gotten to know both of them better now that I’m a mom myself.

[rdb3]

RDB3, speaking of fun, perhaps she didn't invent SNOQ, and my memory is the absolute worst, but didn't she start everybody using "THUD"? It was such a fabulously useful word and it's one I still use in real life to this day whenever I see a thudaliciously handsome man.;-)

Yeah, she started using that for Tony. Those were creative threads!

[saveliberty]

Thank you for sharing your story. I am very sorry that you lost your mother and that she died before you, your brother and your stepfather could say goodbye. She was very young.

[saveliberty]

Oh my gosh! Your father was even younger! I am so very sorry.

Not that this makes everything better but your father and your mother knew that you loved them. And no doubt they loved you more than they would ever be able to tell you. So they would know, even if you could not say goodbye, how much you loved them.

It’s not the best way, but it may help.

God bless you and your brother.

[STARWISE]

Beautiful ... thank you, TM ... ;)

[STARWISE]

Hugs, dear jonny .. ;)

[mware]

Oh the THUD incident.

I will never live that down. I was giving the folks the detail of the visit to Fox Studio's. Tony Snow gave an open invitation to all the snowflakes to stop in and chat with him.

I regaled the snowflakes about the visit including seeing Major Garrett in a ball cap and jeans (tight jeans) along with the word THUD

Didn't Tony go and mention it on the air.

I was mortified and Bahhah and the rest of the FReepers were rolling over in laughter.

[mojitojoe]

How terribly sad. :( Sending prayers to her family. May she rest in peace.

[STARWISE]

I’m with you .. ;)

[Clinging Bitterly]

So sorry to hear about that. My mother died from the same thing last fall, but she was 83 years old and we all knew - not exactly when - but that it was likely to happen, and we were sort of prepared.

Most people don't have the luxury of knowing how they are going to die, and there are worse ways to go than that. My mom dreaded the notion that slowly declining health would land her in a nursing home. At her age, surgery to repair an aneurysm would have done exactly that. So she declined treatment and for her the knowledge of her condition became a sort of comfort in her final months. She kept her independence to the end, and left the bonds of earth without pain or fear.

[saveliberty]

(((((((mware)))))))

Thank you, mware.

[I promise that I am only smiling now.]