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KEEP YOUR GIN UP – DOCUMENTARY Sally is a clown, Amanda is a nurse, and they are fierce friends bound together by the awful, shared experience of caring for a child who is very sick. They both understand living with perpetual grief, battling against bureaucracy and having to pre-pay your child’s funeral. Realising the value of their friendship, Sally and Amanda start a podcast where they share their friendship with the world – having honest and raw conversations about the daily struggles of being a carer, plentiful gin sampling and finding a laugh in the face of darkness.

KEEP YOUR GIN UP

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KEEP YOUR GIN UP – DOCUMENTARY 17:10 minutes

Director/Producer:  Rebecca Thompson

Synopsis

Sally is a clown, Amanda is a nurse, and they are fierce friends bound together by the awful, shared experience of caring for a child who is very sick. They both understand living with perpetual grief, battling against bureaucracy and having to pre-pay your child’s funeral. Realising the value of their friendship, Sally and Amanda start a podcast where they share their friendship with the world – having honest and raw conversations about the daily struggles of being a carer, plentiful gin sampling and finding a laugh in the face of darkness. 

Themes

  • Caring for others
  • Journeys for very sick children
  • Isolation of carers
  • Value of community, friendship and comedy to help deal with hard situations
  • Duty of care for the medical community around diagnosis
  • Importance of ‘normal’ activities for sick kids

Discussion questions

  • How do Amanda and Sally help others in their lives?
  • What are the methods Amanda and Sally use to cope?
  • How important is it to look after the carer as well as the person being cared for??
  • Ways to make life better for those with terminal illnesses?
  • What does the medical community do to make life harder for these mothers?
  • How does comedy work to help Amanda and Sally?