You don’t come across very many films that focus on kidney disease and how it affects lives.  D tour is a documentary film that follows Pat Spurgeon, a rock musician on tour as he goes through daily dialysis treatments while he waits for a new kidney from a matching donor.  Here is a brief overview of the film and Pat’s story.  Pat was born with one kidney, which began to fail when he was in junior high school. He had a successful transplant at twenty-five but fifteen years later, that kidney began to lose function too.  Pat now needed a second transplant though he held onto his dreams of touring with his rock band.  Pat’s friend and director of the film Jim Granato followed him on tour. Three years and 80 hours of footage later, a story of hope, love, support, triumph and the importance of organ donation emerged. Pat seemingly displayed many of the qualities that Deidra discussed in the previous post. He was ready to fight and win – and sharing his story through this film is likely to inspire other kidney patients to do the same.

The film had two recent screenings in North Carolina. However, the film is scheduled to air nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens in November 2009. Watch the D tour film trailer on YouTube.