The Documentary
NEWS. The BBC/Discovery Channel show “Fight for Life” is coming to a TV near you!!
The first of six episodes will air on December 13, 2007 on the Discovery Channel . It is on at 10 AM in our area. Marcus will be featured in the fourth episode (Scott and Martha will make guest appearances). We are going to tape it.
Warning - we only saw the 4th episode, but it was very graphic. As a veteran of many months of serious health issues, it did not phase us much. But they leave very little to the imagination.
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The BBC is doing a documentary on various health conditions including a segment on living donor liver transplantation. They contacted Johns Hopkins, and Hopkins mentioned that had some candidates that were cousins, fairly young, and the liver problems were not the result of drugs or alcohol. So we got picked to be part of the documentary!! It is a joint venture with the Discovery Channel, and is expected to air in the US in the Fall of 2007.
On Wednesday, Aug 23 they filmed us meeting Dr Montgomery for the first time and getting another run down of the surgery. We also had the pre-op testing appointment and they filmed Scott getting blood drawn and an EKG. They also came to our house that night and filmed us working on our “sick bay”.
On Thursday, Aug 24 Hayley (the producer) came and filmed and interviewed Scott and I for a couple hours. That was emotionally exhausting.
Haley interviewing Shannon and Erin
Nathan, one of the other producers, met Scott at the Goddard Visitor Center and spent two hours filming questions about his work and other aspects of the transplant in a different setting on Friday morning. It seems like alot of filming time, but they explained that they generally tape about 100 times the amount that they will eventually use. The surgery alone will probably be about 45 hours of tape from 5 different angles.
Garath (in white shirt) talking to Scott’s brother Brian just before transplant.
Jamie from the BBC at the hospital talking to Scott
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