LOS ANGELES -- Larry Nance Jr. sits in an infusion center room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, intravenous medicine flowing into his right arm while a blood-pressure cuff is fixed to his left.
His blood pressure at the moment suggests that he's nervous, but Nance begs to differ.
“I’ve been doing it for so long that it’s whatever,” says the second-year Los Angeles Lakers forward. “The pin and needle sticks and all that don’t get to me anymore.”
Nance was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at 16, and ever since, he's has received infusions of Remicade, which he now takes every 7½ weeks.