Meet the 10-year-old Patriots fan with Tom Brady’s number engraved on his skull

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December 13, 2016

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Logan Schoenhardt surprised his doctor last March with an unusual request just before undergoing his sixth brain surgery in seven years.

“I walked in, and he said, ‘Would you engrave Tom Brady’s jersey number on the side of my skull?’” Dr. Jonathan Martin, a neurosurgeon at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, recalled in a recent E:60 segment.

Schoenhardt, a 10-year-old Patriots fan from Connecticut, was first diagnosed with a brain tumor when he was 3. After multiple surgeries, radiation treatments, and rounds of chemotherapy, the tumor kept returning.

Schoenhardt’s favorite player is Tom Brady.

“I adore him,” he told ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi. “I’m one of his biggest fans.”

It was as simple as that.

With his parents on board, Martin agreed.

“This was the kid’s sixth brain surgery,” he said. “[There] really wasn’t anything that was going to pose any additional risk to him, and given what I thought it might do for his morale, I said, ‘Why not?’”

After the surgery, Brady made a video to Logan.

“I just want you to know I’ve heard about your incredible story, your incredible journey, and it’s amazing what you’ve fought through over the course of your life, and I’m a big fan of yours,” Brady said.

Logan said he was shocked Brady responded.

“It’s freakin’ Tom Brady,” he said.

Logan’s tumor returned in September. This time was different.

“They said, there’s nothing more that they are going to be able to do for us, for Logan,” his mother, Jo Schoenhardt, said in the piece.

Logan has been completing a bucket list since then—Disney, a motorcycle ride, shooting a gun—and on December 3, he checked off his No. 1 priority: Meeting No. 12.

Watch the full E:60 segment.