This article deals with the experience of becoming ill and the repercussions of these circumstances on Aids patients' lives. It presents questions relating to the diagnosis and hospitalization. Its aim was to give voice to patients as a means of understanding their condition and reconnecting the disruptions experienced during and due to the illness. Based on the possibility of listening to the stories of their lives, reports on how they became ill have been recorded. The patients presented either stories about the disease or stories of the disease, and used this resource as an instrument to transform events and constitute their own view of the world of the disease. Within a single person, the witness, story and disease were merged. Retelling their lives in search of explanations and understanding about becoming ill turns their individual experiences into collective ones.
Sickness; Narrative; Hospitalization