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Saving Butler's Sean McDermott: 'Please don’t tell him he can’t play.'

Butler’s Sean McDermott talks about effects of his staph infection. Indianapolis Star

ANDERSON — Sean McDermott wanted to play basketball, no matter what doctors said. Basketball is his passion.

But before that, he wanted relief from the pain. He texted his mother:

No one understands what I’m going through.

Sean McDermott wanted to live. Not just live. Live like he once did.

Five years later, he is doing so. It has taken that long to recover from a staph infection that left him unable to walk, that could have killed him.