A Michigan man who has gained national attention for his 100-pound scrotum is to finally receive life-altering surgery this week to remove the massive growth.

Dan Maurer, of Battle Creek, Michigan, is to go under the knife on Thursday to remove the debilitating growth he has lived with for over 10 years.

"I feel that I have been blessed enough to have it removed, but I want to make sure this doesn't' happen to anyone else, (and) that's why I want to put myself in the light," the 39-year-old told the New York Daily News.

Maurer has a rare condition known as scrotal lymphedema that's left him with an abnormally large scrotum. But it took years for him to find out what he had because doctors attributed the growth to weight gain.

Even when Maurer began exercising and losing weight, his scrotum continued to grow, causing years of physical exhaustion and public embarrassment.

"When I go out, people do look," Maurer previously told WZZM13. "They try to be polite, you can see when something's not right."

It was by chance he learned about his condition while watching a documentary on TLC titled "The Man With the 132-Pound Scrotum." Wesley Warren Jr., the man in the documentary, was able to have the growth removed through surgery. Unfortunately, Warren past away a year after the procedure due to complications from diabetes.

Maurer knew his only hope was to also have the growth surgically removed. But a lack of funds put any chance of a normal life on hold.

Things changed this summer when a GoFundMe page Maurer set up helped him raise over $27,000 so that California based Dr. Joel Gelman of UC Irvine can perform the procedure. He was the one who removed Warren's growth.

As the surgery looms near Maurer admits he is nervous.  

"With the surgery, my life is on the line and losing my penis is on the line," he told the Daily News.

But Maurer is willing to take the risk because if the surgery is successful, he will be able have sex with his wife for the first time in seven years.