Phillip Hanks celebrates his transplant-aversary with 5 new organs
CHICAGO -- 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. The following day, Hanks was back on the operating table to get a kidney.
— a simultaneous transplant of multiple organs — at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis in April 2021. Since then, Hanks, of Joliet, Illinois, said he doesn’t want to say it’s been easy, but
