Renata´s eyes. A survival patient anecdote

Abstract

Renata had been doubly mastectomized. Surgical wounds had scarred, no longer had the stitches, however, the scars still had that typical pink color of the wounds that have only recently closed. That color “vulnerable-pink”. Three were her attempts wto leave, three the feints of leaving and on all three occasions they saved her life that afternoon, in an interval of two or three hours. The absence of breasts in Renata, and her alopecia secondary to chemotherapy and her recent tattoos caused by burns of the defibrillator paddles, right there, in the place where those roses wounds were, gave Renata a bewildering androgynous look, grotesque . Could we ever tell her that she had been about to leave ... ... three ... times? Could we ever tell her with some laughs how headstrong she was, how stubborn?

Keywords

• Fenomenología
• Cáncer de mama
• Autoimagen
• UCI
• Supervivencia