Date uploaded: 2021-10-27 20:30:31

A young boy held up a poster at a Buccaneers game that read, "Tom Brady Helped Me Beat Brain Cancer." But how? The answer began to unfold in March outside a two-story house in Highland, Utah. Noah Reeb was feeling depressed a few days after undergoing brain surgery for a cancerous tumor. His mother, Jacque Reeb, had endured brain surgery five years earlier for Chiari malformation, a condition in which brain tissue extends into the spinal canal and can create severe pain. Fully recovered, Jacque Reeb used that moment in the car to talk to Noah about mental toughness and adversity and at one point, she later recalled, she checked her phone and discovered something odd. It was a text message from a blocked number that contained a video. She played the video. “Noah, look at this!" It was Tom Brady. “Hey, Noah, how you doing?" Brady began in the video. “I just wanted to let you know that I’m thinking about you. Noah, who had been diagnosed with brain cancer the month before, and his mother were no longer crying. They were sobbing. Then laughing. Absorbing a moment that felt surreal. Tap the link in bio for the full story.