I thought (assumed ' />) he discovered the amyloidosis by consulting a doctor about gradually but steadily declining health, and that it therefore might have begun affecting his work long before his diagnosis.

Books 8-10 were awful though, costing Jordan legions of fans, permanently convincing many of them he had become a hopeless hack who had irretrievably lost what skill he once possessed. This site has many members who are only here because they once enjoyed TWoT enough to join wotmania, but have had nothing but scorn for it since long before that site closed, and those books are probably the biggest cause. That was only exacerbated by the jerky, awkward and often perfunctory in Knife of Dreams (which Jordans health almost certainly affected.) Most glaringly, the single page where Thom and Mat discover "Moiraine lives!" the location of her prison and how to enter it still reeks of a data dump (though KoD was still FAR better than any of the books since ACoS.) The series finally regained respectability only after Jordans death, with TGS.

I do not categorically condemn it for that; I do not demand constant perfection of authors, particularly those slowly dying, and it is quite good again. But it is what it is, as the kids say, and from TPoD to CoT the series was tedious at best and nauseating at worst, not least for the Perrin-Faile "tribute" to Harriet that did little but convince those who recognized it they never wanted to be within 500 miles of her. The Cleansing was suitably epic, the rest merely regrettable, and the only good thing I see in the lot is that Orpheus did not glance back while penning KoD.