Robert Jordan has been diagnosed with amyloidosis.

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My thought and prayers are with him and his family.

I can't find any new news on him, but this is what I've found so far.


http://www.tor.com/jordan/

I have been diagnosed with amyloidosis. That is a rare blood disease which affects only 8 people out of a million each year, and those 8 per million are divided among 22 distinct forms of amyloidosis. They are distinct enough that while some have no treatment at all, for the others, the treatment that works on one will have no effect whatsoever on any of the rest. -- Now in my case, what I have is primary amyloidosis with cardiomyapathy. That means that some (only about 5% at present) of my bone marrow is producing amyloids which are depositing in the wall of my heart, causing it to thicken and stiffen. Untreated, it would eventually make my heart unable to function any longer and I would have a median life expectancy of one year from diagnosis. Fortunately, I am set up for treatment, which expands my median life expectancy to four years.-- My treatment starts in about 2 weeks at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where they have seen and treated more cases like mine than anywhere else in the US.

Dragonmount news
http://www.dragonmount.com/News/?p=270%20

I’ve spoken a little more with RJ about what’s going on. Here’s what he said:

We leave for the Mayo in Rochester on 1 April, to make for an easy trip. My first appointment, for some testing, isn’t until . I’ll be there for 6 to 8 weeks, depending on various things like how long it takes to harvest sufficient bone marrow stem cells — there is a wide variance in how many people normally produce — so I’ll finish up in mid-to-late May and will make the late-June appearances in Seattle and Anchorage with little or no difficulty, as I see it.

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1. Yikes

I hope his treatment is successful. I hate to say it, but I have to wonder what his plans are for the Song of Ice and Fire series. I just started A feast of Crows, and I would be hugely disappointed to not be able to finish the series.

At least he's going to Mayo - they're super there.

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2. WHOOPS

I meant the wheel of time series. sorry! I'm reading Martin right now, so I got confused.

Still, I hope he has a plan in place for the Wheel of Time series - perhaps if the outlook is bleak, he can contract with another author to finish it according to his plot outlines.

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3. Happens to all of use.

He may have it written already or be like JK Rowlings and has the last chapter in a safe deposit box.

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4. According to Wikipedia, one more volume to go in WoT

but he says the 12th and final volume, tentatively called A Memory of Light, may end up being a "2000-page monster" due to his needing to tie up all the loose ends!

On his web site, he says his outlook isn't as grim as it seems, and he says he has about 30 years worth (!) left of novels to write (I read that before learning there's only one more WoT book, so you can imagine the look of horror on my face when faced with the possibility of waiting 30 years for him to finish this series....)

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5. here's some of the latest news-and it's good!

http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=72