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BONILL DE LAS NIEVES, Candela. The two faces of the illness: Experience of a person with an ostomy. Index Enferm [online]. 2008, vol.17, n.1, pp.58-62. ISSN 1699-5988.

The biographical report is a kind of qualitative research which allows us to know and understand the experience of a person in his own words. The protagonist of the report is called Antonio, he is 63 years old and in 2005 he was diagnosed from colon cancer. He was operated and he had a speedy recovery, returning to his everyday life. Nevertheless, one year and a half later, he was detected again of a malignant polyp. He had to be operated again and finally, in a third operation, the physician had to make an emergency ileostomy. Antonio tells us, through the report, how he lived the process from the diagnosis to nowadays, underlining the helpless and the lack of information that he faced after been discharged from the hospital, until he meet the stomatherapist nurse.

Palavras-chave : Stoma; Ileostomy; Stomatherapy nurse; Stomatherapy; Knowledge; Education; Stoma patient; Colorectal cancer.