Portions of sales of the ChadWink sandwich will go towards the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation this month.

Fundraiser will take place at Nightcap in downtown Ann Arbor on Saturday.

Christina Costa takes a picture with her neurosurgeon, Dr. Wajd Al-Holou ahead of her surgery in September 2020. We found a mass in your brain,’” Costa recalls them telling her. She said her neurosurgeon, U-M alumnus Dr. Wajd Al-Holou, left an immediate impression on her. She began selling T-shirts on Instagram at the end of 2020 with a plan to surprise Dr. Al-Holou in January with the funds. “It was so incredible.”AdAfter raising $40,000 on her own, the donor matched each dollar raised and she presented Dr. Al-Holou with a gift of just over $81,000 in January.

The Brugnone family all contracted coronavirus while the father was hospitalized for a brain tumor, but when a popular Instagram influencer heard about it and got involved, people across the country pitched in. “I contracted COVID late March,” Rebecca Brugnone said. That was only the beginning of the problems for Brugnone and her entire family. It was one that the entire family -- including two children -- would have to face. “We were kind of preparing for his his surgery and we all contracted COVID again,” Brugnone said.