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Today, in the website Boris-World, there is a message from Boris & Nicole Kodjoe calling for help with their little Sophie, who was diagnosed at birth with Spina Bifida. I do not know of it is true that the couple need help, or it just a scam for donation.

Here is the full message:

Dear Friends,

We hope you are well. We are writing this letter to share with you a most personal issue and ask for your help. As some of you already heard, our little Sophie was diagnosed at birth with Spina Bifida, the most common birth defect in the US, affecting the brain and/or spine in an average of eight babies a day. Degrees of severity vary from quadriplegic children with major brain damage and spinal injuries to cases of neurogenic bladders or even lesser issues.

We were blessed with a miracle child and spared of the more severe symptoms, but Sophie’s spastic bladder still forces us to catheterize her every three hours, day and night, to avoid pressure build up in her bladder and urine backflow into her kidneys. But frequent catheterization causes urinary tract infections, which are then battled with strong antibiotics, which in turn attack stomach flora and cellular balance, cause bowel issues, and that leads to more infections.

It’s a never ending cycle and the prognosis from specialists all over the world is a life long dependency on catheterization and diapers, unless we’d agree to a bladder augmentation, which is quite risky and not a way we want her to live. While being a simple body function for able-bodied individuals, these activities may take hours for children with Spina Bifida.

So after educating ourselves, studying hundreds of domestic and international cases, and researching alternative and traditional methods, our friend Jim Okula at the Spina Bifida Association of GA called us because he came across Dr Xiao from China. Xiao is the first and only person in the world who has Kodjoe Familydeveloped a procedure of surgically rerouting nerves from the legs to the bladder, providing a new pathway for autonomic stimulation of the bladder, therefore teaching the bladder to empty itself over time.

Dr Xiao has performed this procedure for the past 3 years in China and recently at Beaumont Hospital in Michigan with astonishing results, and now Physicians from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, along with the Spina Bifida Association of GA want to bring him to Atlanta to supervise a surgical study including ten children.

This has been Nicole’s and my priority, and now this procedure can change a lot of families’ lives. But the first phase of this surgical study is not funded, and therefore we are in this alone. Based on a successful outcome of phase one, phase two and the surgical study of 100 more children would receive federal funding.

So right now we have to raise $1.88 million to pay for the surgical study involving 10 children.
We have included some more information on Spina Bifida and the Xiao Procedure. Please don’t hesitate to write with any questions you guys might have.

As you probably noticed, there’s a big blue ‘DONATE NOW’ button on the welcome page of this site. Please, please, please give as much as you possibly can to help make this a reality for thousands of families and their children affected by Spina Bifida.

We thank you and we love you.

Boris and Nicole

Here is the link

About Boris Kodjoe

Boris Kodjoe was born on March 8, 1973 in Vienna, Austria, to Ursula, a German psychologist, and Eric Kodjoe, a Ghanaian physician. He is Jewish through his mother and maternal grandmother. Kodjoe is fluent in German, French, English and Spanish. He has a brother named Patrick and a sister named Nadja. Kodjoe aspired to be a professional tennis player and attended Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, VA, where he played tennis for the Rams. His brother Patrick played for VCU’s basketball team. A back injury ended his tennis aspirations, but he was quickly signed as a model and soon after entered acting.

Named one of the “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” by People Magazine in 2002, Kodjoe is perhaps best known as one of the seven regular cast members from the Showtime drama Soul Food, which aired from 2000 to 2004. He starred in the short-lived sitcom Second Time Around with his Soul Food co-star Nicole Ari Parker, whom he eventually married. He played the role of David Taylor, the wayward son of Pastor Fred Taylor in the October 2005 film The Gospel. He was in a play called Whatever She Wants starring Vivica A. Fox. He will make an appearance on the 5th season of Nip/Tuck.

Boris married his Soul Food: The Series co-star Nicole Ari Parker on May 21, 2005 in Gundelfingen, Germany. She gave birth to their first child, a girl, Sophie Tei-Naaki Lee Kodjoe, on March 5, 2005. She gave birth to the couple’s second child, Nicolas Neruda Kodjoe, a boy, on October 31, 2006 in Atlanta

Nicole and Boris reside in Atlanta, Georgia.

Kodjoe’s height is 6′ 2½”(1.89 m). In audience screenings for the movie Brown Sugar, people rated his character higher than they rated any other in the film.

About Nicole Ari Parker (Nicole Kodjoe)

Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe, also known as Nikki Kodjoe (born Nicole Ari Parker on October 7, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress, who was briefly a model.

Parker is best known for playing the tough but compassionate attorney Teri Joseph in the Showtime television series Soul Food, which was based on the 1997 film of the same name.

In the series, she has showcased her singing voice in several episodes, but as of yet has not embraced this ability full-time careerwise. Parker also had a guest appearance on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, playing a singer. She also had a lead role in the 1998 film Exiled: A Law & Order Movie.

Early in her career Nicole appeared in several critically-acclaimed independent films including The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, Boogie Nights, 200 Cigarettes, and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival winner The Adventures of Sebastian Cole. She starred with her husband, model and actor Boris Kodjoe, in UPN’s situation comedy Second Time Around.

In December 2008, Parker is set to play the role of Angie Dean-Johnson in the new series, The Johnsons.

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