‘My personal health has declined to the point where I really need to start taking care of it. Throughout the entire project, we haven’t shared it with you, but I’ve been in and out of the doctor’s office.’

Maybe taking care of his father, I Believe the article is deliberately ambiguous, it is written vaguely with the notion that it was for his own health, but I’m not sure that’s the case. If it is then the entire project is null and void imo, you don’t get health care flipping tables and selling beans. (Which should be the name of the book he inevitably writes)