Mom battling cancer was feeling ‘down and out.’ Then son sends huge message — in snow

Nelson Brothers said his mom was feeling “down and out” in the Tennessee hospital fighting cancer and pneumonia.

“I said to myself, ‘snow is on the ground, mom loves snow’ — and I gotta do something to cheer her up,” Brothers said in a release from TriStar Summit Medical Center in Nashville.

So he sent her a message from eight floors away.

“I love u. Get well soon,” he wrote in the snow outside her window. Then he decided to write another message from a different angle so other patients could see it.

“I just went down there and realized I could write something universal that would hopefully cheer up other patients too — maybe put a smile on someone’s face and do my good deed for the day,” Brothers, who works as a welder, told hospital staff.

Other patients and their families definitely noticed the big message.

“My mom is also on the 8th floor!” one woman responded on Facebook. “I took a picture of this this morning and had to show her and share on Facebook! This was a great idea! Thank you!!”

In a GoFundMe to raise money for medical expenses, Brothers said his mom Amy has been battling stage 3B inflammatory breast cancer since September 2023. She began chemotherapy less than a week after receiving her advanced stage diagnosis.

“Amy is an amazing daughter, mom, grandmother, sister, mother in law, sister in law, niece, neighbor, aunt, friend and such an inspiration to so many,” Brothers wrote.

He said his mom became hospitalized Jan. 12 with “pneumonia and complications from chemo” as winter storms swept Tennessee. She couldn’t have flowers in her room, which prompted her son to resort to other measures.

“A lot of people run around in this rat race and people just need help,” Brothers said in the release. “I would hope we are always willing and would help others. Saying I love you is another way we can take care of each other.”