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3 Months Waiting For My Brain

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My silence and my need to reflect has brought about great changes in me. I wait during the time of Coronavirus, in the UK, waiting to go home to China, and finally I feel freer to write up my experience.  What happened in between …  The end of the semester. We watched 4 hours of documentary films from my second-year students. Like all end of semesters, it was emotional and mostly successful. Goodbye till next term, and the feeling of a great job done; however, I felt strange and lightheaded, with a pain in my left ear which had come and gone for months. Today it was bad. Very bad. I walked home along Jinshatan - Golden Beach - taking photos, when suddenly everything went into a blur. I had to sit for a long time and knew something was very wrong.  The next day I went to the ENT specialist at the Qingdao International Hospital. I did a hearing test. I had substantial hearing loss and an MRI scan was ordered.  The following week, mid-May