Aim:

to explore in a comprehensive way the experience lived in the treatment of the Chronic Kidney Disease and the meanings of the care elaborated by nurses and relatives which interact with these people.

Material and Method:

Qualitative study, phenomenology hermeneutic approach, using the theory concerning of Van Manen, 11 people with the disease, 5 caregivers and 5 nurses participated on the study, at the city of Neiva, the information was recollected by in-depth interviews.

Results:

The dilemma between life and liberty when building the sense of dealing with the treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease, the subtopics were framed in the hardness of hemodialysis, the meaning of the dialysis machine, the appearance of arteriovenous fistula, the impact of the peritoneal catheter and diet.

Conclusions:

the treatment of the disease bursts in the life of people producing abrupt changes in their life which leads them to recognize the finitude of their existence, the alternatives for surviving, the changes in their corporeity. Which are no outsiders to their caregivers and nurses called to give them support in order to face the treatment.