Seize the storm

 (Picture from Tor’s website)

Robert Jordan is the author of The Wheel of Time series.   On March 25, 2006, he  officially posted  that he got this disease and I found out just the other day.   The disease is called amyloidosis.   It is something like an altered protein that can cause hardening of the organs.   So he is going to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN to get treatment.   Basically they have to give him chemo and kill off all of his bone marrow, then take certain steps to rebuild the systems of the body.

The bad thing is that he might only have a year to live…however, he has made it abundantly clear on  Tor’s website and an official blog  that he is going to fight this and he’s going to make it.   He says something to the effect of “everyone knows someone who was supposed to die within a year and has lived 20 more.”

In my sympathetic mind, I thought about driving over to Rochester and visiting him but I’m sure he doesn’t need fans bothering him while he’s getting chemo.   So I’ll still probably send a card or something.

 Important note: He will be finishing A Memory of Light, which is the last book in the Wheel of Time series.   So there’s no danger!!   Apparently at a signing once, this group of bikers came and threatened to desecrate his grave if he didn’t finish the books before he died (as they heard he was really sick) but this was way before he came down with the disease and just had a really bad cold.

 So if you could, please remember him in your prayers!