A man with a smiling face appeared in advertisements in New York’s famous Times Square, drawing the attention of passersby and exposing his health problem.

My name is Marc, I need a kidney. Can you help!” read the colorful message along with a link to a website.

The message first aired in 2018. Two years later, it was shown again in 2020. It lasted 20 seconds and appeared approximately every 7 minutes, recalls El Diario NY.

Five years later, Marc Weiner celebrates the success of the transplant, reports the New York Post.

Weiner, the medium describes, works for the CBS network and is a cancer survivor. He is 58 years old.

Marc was diagnosed in 2015 with “aggressive” bladder cancer that spread to his kidneys

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He had to undergo dialysis three days a week from October 2016 until the donor showed up.

On April 25, Marc received a kidney transplant that changed his life.

Marc Weiner, CBS News review, lost both kidneys while battling a cancer diagnosis he initially received in 2015. In 2020, he was cancer-free, although still on dialysis.

That’s how he got the kidney

The billboard in New York’s iconic Times Square had its effect.

There were responses from several people, including Michael Lollo, a former police detective.

Lollo even noted that he saw Weiner’s ad and story and took a test to see if he was compatible.

The New York Post explains that while Lollo and another woman proved incompatible with Weiner, their own donations allowed them to give Weiner what he called a “golden ticket.”

That is, it gave him the ability to receive a kidney through a donor as part of an exchange program, allowing a person to donate their kidney to a stranger so that another person, a recipient of their choosing, can receive an organ from another. received donor.

Lollo became a kidney donor for a woman she didn’t know, Ruth Tisak.

What do you know about the donor?

Marc “does not know his donor, a 21-year-old man who chose to remain anonymous. He said he hopes to meet him one day, if the donor is willing.”

When the happy news reached him that he had a donor, Marc remembers his wife answering the call and all he could say excitedly was, “My God.”

Weiner’s donor lives out of state, the outlet said.

He had surgery the same day as Weiner, but in a different part of the country. His kidney was then flown to the hospital in Manhattan where it was transplanted.

When he feels better, Marc dreams of traveling. For now, you need to take care of yourself and adhere to your treatment of “anti-rejection drugs and a strict regimen of visits to the doctor”.

When asked if he ever hesitated to do it, he replies from Long Island, “I just knew I had to take it one day at a time.” “Now I just want to enjoy life.”