Em carne viva: o significado a partir experiência de grandes queimados

Abstract

The experience of a traumatic situation can trigger the description of a story in order to elucidate and give meaning to the lived experience, or it can even resinify an event. The body is in the most diverse societies undergoing changes with regard to its aesthetic concept dictated by the standards of perfection. Therefore, it is understood as the final process of experiences, whether pleasant or not, emancipates as a point of reference for the self. The person who suffered a major burn on his body lives with the fact that he has marks originating from this event, which generally causes limitations and changes of great impact on his life and allows the person to assign meanings to the body marks and to the lived experience. The objective is to understand the experience of having the body burned; understand the meaning of the burn mark on the body; reflect on the changes in life after the burn. It is a qualitative study that, through phenomenology, seeks to understand the meaning of marks on the body of subjects who suffered major burns, subjectively apprehending the perception of the body, the way of being and living. The research participants are individuals in outpatient follow-up for more than six months in the outpatient clinic of the Burns Treatment Center of a Hospital Monsenhor Walfredo Gurgel. The choice of participants was made once they fit the objective of the study and, in the case of patients who have recently suffered major burns, the impact of the burn is not yet something everyday. With the information in hand, the process of description of the experience, reduction, that is, putting yourself in parentheses (putting in parentheses the theoretical and clinical knowledge about the body marks of burns) will be carried out in order to have an understanding of the phenomenon from the description, in addition to the data processing by the Iramuteq software. The stories reported express the simplicity and humility of the interviewed subjects and reveal the feeling of fear of the fire and consequently of the burn for remembering the moment, especially about how it all happened and the feeling of the lived experience. Through the speeches, it was noticed the attachment to religion, family support, changes in life and overcoming from a traumatic event. The participants reported that the burn occurs very abruptly and that after such a fast moment, trauma and fear of fire become part of their lives; the hospitalization period was considered to be the most difficult part of the process due to intense pain, itching, contractures, anesthesia, bathing and dressing, in addition to other painful procedures such as skin grafting and debridement; it was possible to perceive that family support has great relevance in this process and that their religion, faith and belief in their lives made it possible to overcome and accept their bodies and their new limitations, besides being one of the great stimuli in their process of treatment and recovery.