Giving yourself a sister’s cure for vertigo – the joy of August 29, 2011 After a busy day in the clinic, I felt thirsty when I was walking on the way from work. I especially missed the cup of green tea on the coffee table and regretted how I forgot to drink water when I left work to moisten my throat after a hard day. I took off my white coat and put on the dress I just bought. The gauze and light green dress gave me a light feeling, and as I walked, I thought back to the day’s work. The last patient with vertigo I saw before the end of the shift was one of our own, a nurse from the internal medicine department. She said that she was going to work when she suddenly felt the sky spinning, could not stand, panicked and vomited. She was worried that something was wrong with her brain, so she braced herself and went to the neurology department, and when she described the feeling of vertigo, the neurologist suggested her to see Dr. Feng Zhang in the ENT department. I saw her in front of me, about 30 years old, wearing a light blue nurse’s uniform, pale, without a trace of blood on her lips, sweating on her forehead, with her hand pressed firmly on her stomach, standing with her waist hunched and head bowed, holding the door frame of the consultation room, and having difficulty moving as if her feet were sucked by a suction stone. I hurriedly got up and let her go to the diagnostic bed next to the consultation room. I always think that patients from afar are like distant relatives, hospital colleagues are their own brothers and sisters, we are eating in the same pot, is a family! The hospital was very big, and I did not know the sister or sisters in front of me. I looked at her badge and affectionately called her Ms. Hu (a pseudonym), helped her to lie down, and let her tell me about the onset of the disease. I patiently reassured her and gently treated her. At the first treatment she was very dizzy, at the second treatment she felt less dizzy and at the end of the third treatment, when she sat up, she was surprised to find that she was not dizzy. She gently shook her head again and really was not dizzy, she said thank you repeatedly. Looking at the little sister in front of me, half an hour ago she was pale and full of pain, half an hour later she had a joyful face and red lips, I did not hide my pride and complacency and smiled happily. When a painter finishes a painting, he will step back and savor it, immersed in joy. I could restore a pale young woman’s face to her rosy and healthy, just like a painter painting a landscape full of vitality, could I not be proud and happy? Letting the vertigo patients experience the miraculous effect of manual repositioning to cure vertigo, and listening to the patients exclaiming the miracle of medicine, brings me unspeakable joy, really like a painter completing a work of art. In the process of treating vertigo, the direction, amplitude and duration of nystagmus are important indicators to determine the location of positional vertigo lesions. In several big hospitals in Beijing, it is judged by vestibular function examination and nystagmography, and there are reset chairs for treating vertigo. However, these devices are expensive. In the process of treating vertigo, even very slight nystagmus can be captured by me as important diagnostic information, and I can correctly judge the lesion site and give correct treatment. The continuous accumulation of practice in treating vertigo has given me computer-like keen observation power, and I can relieve the pain of my relatives, friends and sisters with a simple diagnostic bed, so why should I not be proud and pleased? Every day, when I put on the white coat, I feel a sense of responsibility. The hospital has given me a platform to showcase myself and an opportunity to experience joy and success, and treating vertigo makes me so happy that I forget to eat and sleep. At this time, walking home, I longed for the cup of hot tea on the coffee table.