Photo: Christopher Jordan/Instagram
After a harrowing battle withCOVID-19, Scarface is in recovery — thanks to his son, Chris Jordan.
Scarface, né Brad Jordan, wasdiagnosed with COVID-19 in March 2020, Chron.com reported at the time.
The Houston rapper went to the emergency room after feeling sick and reaching a 103-degree fever. He was released, but didn’t improve and tested positive for the respiratory virus upon his second visit to the ER.
“This whole three weeks has been an ordeal,“he said in an interview at the time. “It’s the craziest [stuff] I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve been to the point where I felt I was gonna die.”
“I’m not all the way out of the woods yet,” Scarface, who has asthma, added. (Those with asthma aremore likely to be hospitalized with the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
Scarface’s health problems persisted, and in October 2020, he sent out a call for kidney donors on Twitter.
“I need a kidneyy’all any volunteers? B+ blood type,” he wrote.
It turns out that his son Chris was a match, and nearly a year later, Scarface has a new kidney.
Chrisshared photos following the surgerieson Instagram Wednesday, writing, “What a journey it’s been. Surgery went well my dad is thriving kidney is working great!!!!”
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“Thank you all for the prayers.@brothermoblove you family,” he added, tagging his dad.
He alsoshared a touching videoof himself visiting his dad’s hospital room while they were both still in their medical gowns.
“You saved my life, boy,” Scarface says in the clip, holding his son’s hand. “I love you.”
“I love you, too, Dad,” Chris says back.
“Thou shall honor their Parents and be of service to others and prosperity shall be upon them. Love you dad@brothermob#livingdonorsrock” Chris wrote in the caption accompanying the video.
J Prince, the founder of Rap-A-Lot Records, shared a photo of the father-son pair giving thumbs-up to the camera,congratulating them both on successful surgeries.
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