The Repair Shop audiences were left in floods of tears throughout this year’s Christmas episode and it was all thanks to a record gamer and Abba
Jo Thomas gotten to the workshop to satisfy Jay Blades and Mark Stuckey, bringing with her an ‘exceptionally unique’ record gamer that was offered to her as a present by kid Ben.
Regretfully, it was the last present she ever got from her young boy, who passed away from cancer aged 11 on January 6, 2006.
‘He purchased me this with his own cash since music was a huge thing for us and he liked his music,’ Jo shared.
‘Me and Ben utilized to listen to records and we utilized to dance around and, as quickly as you put the record gamer on, he ‘d simply begin beaming at you.’
Sharing more about her late boy with a smile on her face, Jo stated: ‘Ben was fantastic. An extremely desired little kid, let me inform you. And after that, on his 10th birthday, he wasn’t himself.
A 10-year-old does not being in their mummy’s lap or their daddy’s lap. I might feel this heat on his best leg, simply above his knee, so went to the health center. They did the X-ray and a week later on, we had the call to state that it was cancer, osteosarcoma, which we required to go and have chemotherapy.
‘We did chemo for Ben however he didn’t respond extremely well to it. He was extremely, extremely improperly. And after that we ended up the chemo however, sadly, the chemo had not worked and the cancer returned. The only method for them to do anything was to amputate his ideal leg, right approximately his hip.’
Jo went on to state that her child ‘never ever when groaned’ and preserved a favorable mindset as he practiced strolling once again following his amputation. He even joked to his school buddies that a shark bit off his leg when he was holidaying in Australia.
Unfortunately, after his op in April, that September, Ben was informed that his cancer had actually infected his lung and it was terminal.
That Christmas, Ben chose to purchase his mum the record gamer and surprise her with it on the special day which she, obviously, ‘wept [her] eyes out’ over.
Heartbreakingly, after their last Christmas together in 2005, Ben passed away weeks later on.
Having actually seemed like she would never ever commemorate Christmas ever once again, Jo still sees Christmas as an unique time with ‘gorgeous memories’, however wished to get her precious record gamer repaired, especially so she might listen to Abba, which was Ben’s preferred band, particularly the tune Slipping Through My Fingers.
The group got to work, healing the record gamer which Jo thought was beyond hope.
In the future in the program, the completed item was exposed, with the record gamer totally operating once again and even with legs on based on Jo’s demand, as she discovers flexing over hard due to arthritis.
Responding to the change, she rupture into floods of tears, together with Ben’s daddy Darren.
‘Oh my God!’, she exclaimed. ‘Wow. I’m happy!’
For one last surprise, Jay and Mark highlighted a record to reveal Jo what the freshly reconditioned gamer might do– it was, obviously, Slipping Through My Fingers.
Jo gasped in shock as she heard the tune playing and remembered her late kid.
‘That’s our preferred tune. He enjoys this tune. It’s simply best,’ she stated, cleaning her eyes and thanking the group for their effort.
I understand that as quickly as I take a seat and I play that record, Ben will be with me. I’ll feel him.’
Responding to the valuable scenes, social networks users were likewise bawling.
‘My goodness sobbing at this Abba tune on #repairshop thinking about this girl’s kid and sensation such substantial loss at Christmas’, composed Rachael Santangelo.
Viewing the Christmas @TheRepairShop with tears diminishing my face. Benâ $ s mum playing slipping through my fingers by @ABBA that is among the most poignant things Iâ $ ve ever seen on the program. Bless Ben & & his household ð $– #therepairshop
— LouiseW (@Cogs39) December 24, 2023
That episode of #therepairshop almost complete me. The record gamer and the ABBA tune- such a charming method for that mum to bear in mind her kid.
— Sarah (@MrsWubbleyou) December 24, 2023
No, Iâ $ m not weeping at the record gamer repair work ð – hits near to home as we lost a young relative to the exact same cancer ð – #therepairshop
— Miss G ð ” (@Miss_G_English) December 24, 2023
‘That episode of #therepairshop almost completed me. The record gamer and the ABBA tune- such a charming method for that mum to bear in mind her boy’, composed user MrsWubbleyou.
Another stated they were ‘weeping like a child’ while one audience hailed it as ‘among the most poignant things I’ve seen on the program.’
Television character India Willoughby composed: ‘These stories on #ChristmasRepairShop. Ben’s record gamer. His mum is so strong’.
Capture up on The Repair Shop on BBC iPlayer.
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