[Northkeep] Jordan

Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner burgborrendohl at valornet.com
Mon Sep 17 09:11:42 PDT 2007


       From Wikepedia:



      Illness

On March 23 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23>, 2006 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006>, Jordan disclosed in a statement^[5] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan#_note-4> in a firm and 
optimistic tone that he had been diagnosed with primary amyloidosis 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloidosis> with cardiomyopathy 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiomyopathy> (cardiac amyloidosis 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_amyloidosis>), and that, with 
treatment, his median <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median> life 
expectancy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy> is four years, 
though he said he intended to beat the statistics. He later posted on 
his Dragonmount blog to encourage his fans not to worry about him and 
that he intended to have a long and fully creative life, working for 
another 30 years.

He began chemotherapy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy> 
treatment at Mayo Clinic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Clinic> in 
Rochester, Minnesota 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester%2C_Minnesota> in early April 
2006.^[6] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan#_note-5> Jordan 
was enrolled in a study using the drug Revlimid 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revlimid> just approved for multiple 
myeloma <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_myeloma> but not yet 
tested on primary amyloidosis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloidosis>.

On January 22 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_22>, 2007, Jordan's 
blog announced that the Lambda light chain 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_chain> levels had dropped to a 
rating of 2.70.^[7] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan#_note-6> 
This reduction was sustained throughout another break in Jordan's use of 
Revlimid, which he briefly came off again due to side effects attributed 
to the drug. It should be noted that for the first time since his 
diagnosis in March 2006 Jordan's Lambda light chains were within the 
normal limits.

Jordan succumbed to his illness on 16 September 2007 and died at about 
2:45pm.^[/citation needed 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources>/]






More information about the Northkeep mailing list