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This essay represents my process of thinking, rethinking, and assessing trauma and loss from my “I” as a woman who grew up during a dictatorship, as a scholar today in a Chilean public university. Feeling and listening is a form of creating knowledge in the process of studying trauma in Chilean former political prisoners of Pinochet’s regime. I start this essay by thinking about past and static concepts of trauma and loss that were developed in a present and living “thing” that I cannot separate to Memory and Redress. Story telling, dreams, and short stories in a performative text shape this essay to seek shared feelings, experiences, and ideas about trauma and loss, today, and to encourage readers to action. My feelings are identified as part of this “thing” popularly called trauma, which is understood as my own personal construction about some aspects of these events during Pinochet’s regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: End-stage chronic kidney disease is a severe public health problem due to the poor quality of life of patients on dialysis and the costs associated with renal replacement treatment., Aim: To understand the social representations of kidney disease of people on dialysis., Material and Methods: In a qualitative study under the post-positivist paradigm, eighteen patients in peritoneal or hemodialysis participated in an in-depth interview. The analysis was performed using content analysis., Results: Eight categories were identified: Friends, Health Care Team, Spirituality and Disease, Family, Health Support System, Physical Consequences, Psychosocial Consequences, Self-Care of Continuous Health-Disease., Conclusions: Health care of people on dialysis should take into consideration the experience of kidney disease from the perspective of the patient, including his beliefs and feelings and involving the family, community, and the state.