Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp poses for a portrait in promotion of his forthcoming album “Plain Spoken” at the Greenwich Hotel, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP)
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After more than 60 years, John Mellencamp sat down with the doctor who saved the singer’s life when he was just days old.
“I didn’t even know I had the operation until some kid, I was about 9 or 10, said ‘what’s that big scar on the back of your neck?’ and I went home and asked my parents,” Mellencamp said in an interview with CBS News. “They said, ‘oh, don’t worry about it. You had an operation.”
The operation, it turns out, was a pioneering procedure to correct a spina bifida birth defect — an opening at the top of the spinal column.
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