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Gareth Weeks, 2 April 2019. See SWNS story SWOCliver; A dad who underwent a liver transplant has shared before and after photos of himself taken just six weeks apart to show the incredible impact of organ donation. Gareth Weeks, 38, was diagnosed with an incurable chronic liver disease six years ago and last year doctors said he was in urgent need of a new organ. After seven months of anxiously waiting for a call - with a hospital bag waiting at the door - he finally got the news to say a match had been found. By that time his skin was extremely yellow due to jaundice - his liver unable to filter his blood properly - as seen in a shocking photo taken just five days before his transplant. But a photo taken in the exact same spot just six weeks later, along with his smiling daughter Zara, six, shows just how far he has come in such a short time. Dad-of-one Gareth, from Dunfermline, Fife, is sharing his story of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and organ transplantation to educate and inspire others.