The objective of this study was to understand the social reality of patients' daily life with chronic renal failure in hemodialysis. To understand this phenomenon from the theoretical-methodological referential of the historic and dialectic materialism. The interviews were performed with 18 patients submitted to analysis of speech procedure revealing dialetics subjects. These subjects were analyzed regarding the categories: health-diasease process; possibility x reality and need x casualness. These patients, considered hemodialysis as a treatment unavoidable and the transplant casual, thus, between this dialetic relationship there is the nursing which needs to extend its comprehension on thr arduous, sad, dificult and monotonous reality and the possibilities o transformation.
Chronic renal failure; Hemodialysis; Nephrology