Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time series) diagnosed with amyloidosis.

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He is one of my favorite writers. It is unthinkable that he may not be around to finish all the books he wants to write, including the end of the Wheel of Time series. My thoughts 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.