Among the medical workers aiding Wuhan, nurses are numerous but overlooked. However, doctors and nurses are equally important, as Zhang Wenhong says in an interview.

It is the 109th International Nurses Day today, and yet we still have few understanding of nurses. Actually, to show them more understanding and respect is to offer our lives more guarantees, so we could know their stories and listen to their inner voices.

Thus, here comes “A Nurse's Story”. Christie Watson, the author, is a nurse who has worked in nursing for 20 years, and writes down the truth as an individual and the memories of health and life.

Christie describes her nursing career as followed: I put in a lot of efforts in the twenty years of nursing, which has been solidly fruitful. I want to share the sadness and joy of this extraordinary undertaking. Walking through the ward, we go through stages from birth to death; then we walk through the intensive care unit for children, we can open the double-leaf doors to the medical ward; responding to the ringing of bell, we run through the corridor, and pass through the pharmacy and the staff restaurant to the emergency room, thus understanding the hospital and all aspects of nursing. Besides, we'll meet the people on the life road, such as patients, family members and medical workers whom we may have known already because we'll all be taken care of at certain moments of life. In other words, all of us are nurses.

According to Christie, who works in the intensive care unit for children, a nurse has extremely hard working days.

A nurse will watch a child turning blue from outside to inside, then turning black, and then losing the feeling of fingers, toes, arms and legs.

A nurse will see the data of blood test, knowing that the data means a life coming to an end; and a mother will ask if the nurse will turn off the life support when that’s her child.

Caring for a child with severe brain damage, a nurse needs to drill a hole in his skull to let additional fluid out, and must be careful, so that the swollen brain won’t flow out together.

A nurse will care for a child with a dyskinesia who can not stop exercising, has been convulsing and tense, and has severe muscle cramps. Understanding that the disease will accompany him for life and is caused by measles infection, his parents ask if it is their fault because the child has not been vaccinated with MMR vaccine.

A nurse will care for a child infected with Epstein-Barr, whose skin will be extremely fragile even if it is covered with a plastic film and a cardboard thermometer. No matter how careful you are, the skin will be peeled off by any touch. The nurse's heart gets hurt when the child's skin is exfoliated.

In other words, there is no place as miserable as the intensive care unit for children in most parts of the world, and the nurses here almost feel heartbroken every day.

The readers can find this empathy in “A Nurse’s Story”. Only with empathy can you really understand nurses and that disease is a part of our lives; we need to learn to be a patient, learn to take care of the patients around us, and learn to know ourselves more clearly and face the unknown situation in front of us without fear.

When receiving the goodwill of nurses, please tell them that their efforts and help are of great use.

To all the nurses, happy holiday, and thank you.