What the Hell Is a Sed Rate?
Previously on The Diagnosis We settled into our life in Phoenix. I was still doing weekly plasmapheresis treatments and had made inaugural visits to each of my other new doctors. Blood work was drawn about once a month at a lab that was on my way to work. Because appointments were not accepted, people would line up outside the building well before seven o'clock. Then there was a mad rush when the doors were unlocked to get your name on the list so you wouldn't be there all morning. It was chaotic and kind of stressful. Ryan quickly found employment at ASU via a recommendation from a former co-worker at UT. He was working in the college of engineering, building and managing their distance learning program. Like mine, his office was in Tempe, though he had a much longer commute. It would take him 45 minutes on average to drive to and from work. We had made friends. Two of them! A guy who was also named Ryan about our age started at my office about 2 weeks after I did and we got a