(Former baseball athlete accepts personal responsibility)
Jenks, 43, shared his current condition from a Portugal hospital bed during an interview with MLB.com Saturday morning.
“You know, the s— I was doing in my 20s and early 30s, no normal person would have survived,” Jenks told MLB.com. “So, in one way, I’m grateful to be alive. In another way, I’m not surprised this happened. It goes to show you have to take care of yourself from top to bottom with nutrition and exercise and having a good daily plan.”
Jenks added, “I’m not saying you need to turn yourself into a Greek god, but you need to watch what you put into your body. Unfortunately, in my 20s, it was the last thing on my mind, being worried about what was going in. I’m not saying that’s 100 percent the factor of what happened here.”
The 43-year-old spent the majority of his seven-year MLB career with the White Sox, where he was a member of the 2005 World Series championship team.
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