I am [] and am still on chemotherapy treatment in the US.Cgs did not keep my job and never donated monies to me at your so called fundraiser.Any time off I was given was deducted from my salary.One teacher died in a scooter accident in the "quiet safe" garden. Several others have sustained serious motorbike related injuries as well. I know of at least four other teachers who have been in a motorbike accident just this year. Medical problems abound too. There have been multiple instances of current teachers - and former ones - either returning home or going to the next school and learning that they have a tumor. Two teachers including myself were diagnosed with cancer last year. Evidence is lacking to be able to say that this is China's environmental problems "causing" these cases, but there is something more to all this than pure coincidence. Everybody will tell you the pollution is "much better than Beijing" but it is still very bad for a large percentage of the year. A community of only around one hundred foreigners should not have rates of tumors that are this high. It isn't just strange growths either, one teacher had to be treated for tuberculosis.

I hope your chemotherapy goes well.

I have almost lost count of the FT's who've had to return home to undergo mostly palliative care (but a good few successes) during the last twelve years I have been coming and going to China. Even FT's who've been mysteriously poisoned (not intentionally) as opposed to succumbing to pollutants.

Ideally Westerners shouldn't live or work in China. But it can be a good option for some old soldiers.