title: [Silence and the diabetic patient].
abstract: This text intends to reflect on the experience of diabetics who face the loss of a part of their body. The reflection is based on Merleau-Ponty's idea that the body speaks and therefore it also silences. But what silence is this text referring to? It refers to a symbolic silence, more silent than the real silence, a strong, heavy and meaningful silence. A kind of silence that stuns, that is permanent and eternal. A silence that marks, that reminds and also adapts itself. A silence deriving from life and from the adaptation of a new way of living.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem e Obstetrícia da Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Mestre em Saúde do Adulto.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Santana
mesh_terms: D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans