Stroke is a disease that leaves physical and mental consequences and demands the full-time care of another person. In the cases we treat when patients suffer from this condition, care is taken by their wives immediately. What happens next configures a work that transforms the itineraries and space-time of women and also configures an ethic of care in which women go through a physical dimension, a moral dimension and an emotional dimension that constantly overlap and we They help to see care as a sexed phenomenon, which occurs in its own universe in a self-contained way and that goes beyond the physical.