Coincidentally, I was just browsing his forum yesterday when I found out about his health problems. Not looking good at all. Sounds like his treatment wasn't very successful. He said that without the treatment he has a life expectancy of 1 year. Book 12 isn't due out until 2008, so not too promising and he has stated that if he dies before the last book is done, nobody else will finish it. Here's to hoping that he can prove the doctors wrong.