Abstract

The present report shows a personal history of a 35-year-old woman, diagnosed of a breast cancer 2 years earlier. It expresses her own way of living her illness and the different processes she had submitted to fight against it. At the same time, her wish for life and her continuous positive behaviour not to consider herself as “a sick woman”, as well as her developing strategies to face desperate moments in her daily life. The use of life histories as a working technique in the data gathering could help nurse professionals to discover the personal and real meaning of such an illness, to deepen into the roots of different experiences and to articulate nursing strategies and ways addressed to lessen negative feelings in order to get better evolutions within the process of an illness. At the same time, these type of reports help the main character implied – “the protagonist” - to feel very well acquainted with all those other women undertaking the same sort of process.

Highlights

  • The present report shows a personal history of a 35-year-old woman, diagnosed of a breast cancer 2 years earlier

  • The use of life histories as a working technique in the data gathering could help nurse professionals to discover the personal and real meaning of such an illness, to deepen into the roots of different experiences and to articulate nursing strategies and ways addressed to lessen negative feelings in order to get better evolutions within the process of an illness. These type of reports help the main character implied – “the protagonist” - to feel very well acquainted with all those other women undertaking the same sort of process

  • Como conclusión de este estudio, considero que la protagonista de esta historia nos muestra una lección de coraje y de gran capacidad de adaptación en los momentos críticos y que con su historia no sólo es capaz de brindar su apoyo y su valor a todas las mujeres que están atravesando el duro momento de la enfermedad, si no que además a los profesionales sanitarios nos puede ayudar a reconocer el proceso individual y subjetivo por el que cada persona afronta esta situación

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The present report shows a personal history of a 35-year-old woman, diagnosed of a breast cancer 2 years earlier. Este relato narra la historia personal de una mujer de 35 años de edad, diagnosticada desde hace 2 años de cáncer de mama, muestra su propia vivencia de la enfermedad y los diferentes procesos a los que se debe enfrentar para poder combatirla.

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