The experience of person with colon cancer and colostomy: Time and space suffered or lived.

Abstract

Justification. In 2016 in Mexico, colorectal cancer in men ranked fourth in neoplasms worldwide; in women, it was in third place. Objectives: to explore the experience of people with colon cancer and who carry a colostomy. Methodology. This is a qualitative descriptive phenomenological study in eight informants selected for convenience sampling, Mexican adults of the male and female sex and the data collection was through an in-depth interview, establishing raport with the participants. The data analysis was through content analysis by Strauss and Corbin. The theoretical support made according to Martin Heidegger and Henri Lefebvre. Results and discussion. The most shocking experience is the feeling that your life no longer has time, time became finite after diagnosis and it is not enough to take care of yourself and work. While space conditions the time and the way in which the experience of having cancer is lived, in fact the amplitude of a space could be insufficient when the anguish is lived and one wishes to escape from reality. It is the nursing responsibility to support the process of recognizing and accepting your body, learning to take care of it and having the much desired control over their life and activities.