[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>/]
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