Tracee Ellis Ross is among the many well-known faces extending their help to superstar hairstylist Johnnie Sapong who stays in intensive care after present process mind surgical procedure to take away a tumor.
The “Black-ish” star took to her Instagram Story on Monday, June 12 to share a hyperlink to Sapong’s fundraising web page and provide her help to his household, E! Information reviews.
“@sapongjohnnie sending all of the therapeutic vitality and love love love,” she wrote alongside a photograph with Sapong and a hyperlink to his GoFundMe.
“Please help Johnnie and his household.”
Sapong’s son John Sapong organized the fundraising effort after his “dad almost died,” in accordance with the marketing campaign’s title. The fundraiser reveals how Sapong was woken up out of his sleep on Thursday, June 8, with a “extreme headache” and blurred imaginative and prescient in his left eye.
The freelance hairstylist tried to disregard the ache and make it to his son’s Fifth-grade commencement on Friday morning. However the ache was an excessive amount of and he opted to remain residence to get relaxation. As soon as his household returned residence and noticed that he was nonetheless in ache, that’s once they determined to take him to the hospital.
The ER go to resulted in an MRI and cat scan that discovered “one thing on his mind.” After he was transferred to a different hospital, a neurological staff found “a big tumor on his pertuatory gland,” his son revealed.
“It was urgent on his mind and optic nerve and was it bleeding,” John wrote.
After an extended surgical procedure, the tumor was eliminated however Sapong stays hospitalized beneath assessment. The household of the freelance hairstylist is asking for assist as Sapong recovers.
“As you all know my dad is a form, wonderful, proficient man who loves his job as a contract hairdresser and who works arduous to help his household,” John continued.
“He’s the primary supply of revenue for our household. He’s not going to have the ability to work, we don’t understand how lengthy for, how lengthy it can take for him get again to full well being.”
Together with Ellis Ross, different celebrities who’ve donated to the fundraising marketing campaign embrace Amandla Sternberg, Sasha Lane, and Charlize Theron.
