So, I recently shot a sizzle reel about Liver Transplant for Al Roker Ent, yes that Al Roker. He's actually a very nice guy. A sizzle reel is kind of like a pilot but shorter and more like a commercial for the show than the actual show. The idea is you give it to various cable networks and hopefully they say, "oooh, ahhh, give me more of that." Then, they pay Al Roker Ent to make a whole bunch of them, a series even, and everyone's happy provided that the shows rate well among breastfeeding women between the ages of 28 and 60 or whatever demographic the network thinks it's going after at that moment.
Back to the liver transplant. This lady gave half of her liver to her father who was slowly dying from end-stage liver disease and encephalopathy (look it up!). Did you know the liver regenerates? I had no idea. So does this mean the Prometheus myth was true? The classics department should really get in on this. We're talking about scientific evidence that one of the Greek myths was non-fiction. And if you believe that, I've got a three-headed dog to sell you.
Anyway, if you ever have a chance to watch liver transplant surgery I completely recommend it. Just make sure to eat tons of lasagna before you go. After hours of operating the surgical team pulled a beautiful, living, bleeding half-liver from the donor and placed bets on how much it weighed. And yes, Price Is Right rules were in effect. Then the chief of surgery carried the liver in a bucket into the OR next door where another team sewed it into the recipient. Within a week, the recipient who hadn't read a book in over two years was 86 pages into Merle's Door: Lessons from a freethinking dog. Sizzling, no?
Happy Memorial Day!!
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