The Major League Baseball player, Bobby Jenks, is still recovering from emergency surgery that was performed in order to remove a serrated bone spur from his back.

Jenks had initially scheduled surgery in December to remove two of the four bone spurs that were on his spine. Due to an error made by someone during the surgery, a third spur had begun to be removed, but was not completely taken out before the surgery ended.

This error was unknown to the Red Sox relief pitcher, who returned home after the surgery was finished. He began experiencing severe pain in his back, and also noticed a clear fluid traveling out of his bandaged spine. He went to the emergency room, and was immediately rushed into surgery.

The surgical error caused an infection to grow in his incision, contaminating his spinal fluid. Jenks is lucky to have caught the mistake when he did, otherwise the complications could have been much more severe.