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As NLLInsider.com first reported last week, Rochester Knighthawks/Peterborough Lakers/Rochester Rattlers star John Grant Jr. had emergency surgery for an infection that was spreading through is body.

Knighthawks general manager Regy Thorpe is confident Junior will be healthy in time for the start of the National Lacrosse League season and on Monday, NLLInsider.com caught up with Grant, who is still in a Peterborough hospital. “I’ve had better days,” he said on the telephone. Junior traced the infection back to his Major League Lacrosse game with the Rattlers against the Chicago Machine and said the pain grew steadily more intense as he continued to play. His elbow was swollen “to the size of a basketball” and the pain spread from there to his back and leg. It got so bad the night before his Major Series Lacrosse Game 7 with the Lakers against Brampton that he didn’t sleep. “I was tossing and turning all night,” he said.

The morning of Game 7, he called teammate Stephen Hoar, who is involved in medical equipment sales, and Hoar advised Junior to get the pain checked out.

“I checked in Thursday morning at 8,” Grant said. “The doctor drained it and then said I needed surgery. They had me in surgery by 4.”

Grant hopes to be released in the next day or two and says he’ll be on antibiotics for at least 6 weeks.

“I thought I blew my knee out, that’s how bad the pain was,” said Grant. “I thought I tore an ACL or something but I couldn’t remember any play that might have done it. But sometimes you can do that and not even know it. That pain was the worst I’ve ever felt.”

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