Five new organs and one year later...

White (left) honouring Hanks on the first-year anniversary of Hanks receiving five organs in a simultaneous transplant, as well as his work as a spokesperson for the Organ/Tissue Donor Life Goes On programme. — TNS

One year ago, Phillip Hanks was enduring the first of two surgeries.

One was almost eight hours to give him a new intestine, stomach, liver and pancreas.