A Michigan man who has witnessed his scrotum
balloon to 100lbs over the past decade due to a rare
condition may soon be able to have sex with his wife
for the first time in years thanks to a life-changing
surgery.
Dan Maurer, from Battle Creek, suffers from scrotal
lymphedema - an ailment that has caused one of his
testicles to become abnormally large.
The 39-year-old husband said his condition has
affected his relationship with his wife of 20 years,
Mindy.
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The couple reportedly have not been intimate in
seven years due to Dan's illness.
Two months ago, the tale of Maurer's struggle went
viral after a series of stories appeared online
documenting the man's efforts to raise money for a
costly and dangerous surgery to remove the growth
on his scrotum.
The publicity allowed the 39-year-old Michigan man
to raise close to $30,000 towards the operation,
which was performed Thursday in California.
'With any surgery, there’s a chance of something
going wrong. So, there is fear. Then, there’s the
excitement of changing my life forever,' Maurer told
The Detroit Free Press on the eve of the procedure.
Hours before the operation, Maurer took to his
GoFundMe page to post an update about the
upcoming operation.
'My Surgery is in 2 hours. So this might be my last
post. I love you all and I can not thank you enough
for your support in all of this,' he wrote.
'My wife is everything to me and to get a second
chance to give her then man she deserves means a
lot to me. I will post as soon as I can if andwhen I
wake up.'
Speaking to New York Daily News before going under
the knife, Mr Maurer reiterated that he was anxious,
but that the risk was well worth it.
'With the surgery, my life is on the line and losing my
penis is on the line,' he said.
The Michigan resident added that he was excited
about the prospect of having sex with his wife for the
first time in seven years.
Beside marital relations, Maurer is also looking
forward to doing more traveling and riding a jet ski.
Maurer, originally from Kalamazoo, first noticed that
something was wrong with his anatomy when he was
in his 20s.
Maurer's scrotum started getting bigger, but when he
sought medical help, doctors informed him that he
has to lose weight.
‘I was doing two miles a day in the pool, so I lost
50lbs like that,’ said Dan.
But even as he was shedding the extra pounds, his
scrotum continued expanding, eventually ballooning
to the size of a large cantaloupe.
‘The bigger it gets it seems to me like the faster it
grows. When he stands it almost hangs to his ankles,’
his mother, Connie Maurer, told My Fox Detroit.
Dan Maurer again consulted with physicians but got
the same response as before: he must lose more
weight.
‘As far as they were concerned, I had to have lap-
band surgery to lose weight,’ Dan told the station
KSDK.
Maurer eventually fell ill and had to be hospitalized
with what turned out to be a broken cyst inside his
oversize scrotum.
Then one day, Dan Maurer came across the TLC
reality show The Man With The 132 Pound Scrotum
about the plight of Wesley Warren Jr.
At that moment, Maurer knew what was wrong with
him.
Scrotal lymphedema is a disease that is caused by
blockage of the lymphatic vessels in which tissue
builds up outside of the testicles, resulting in
swelling.
Maurer then discovered that his only hope was Dr
Joel Gelman, a California-based urologist who
operated on Wesley Warren in April 2013 to remove
his outsized growth.
Warren passed away in March of this year at age 49.
It is believed that he died from complications with
diabetes.
Gelman has agreed to perform the dangerous
operation to remove Maurer's massive growth, but
the urologist is not in the patient's medical network
and the procedure is not covered by his insurance.
In the case of Wesley Warren, Dr Gelman agreed to
treat him free of charge.
Dan Maurer has launched a campaign on the site
GoFundMe.com to raise $20,000 toward the surgery.
As of Thursday afternoon, people have donated over
$27,200. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2737368/Man-100-pound-scrotum-undergoes-life-changing-surgery-allow-relations-wife-seven-years-abstinence.html