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- <title>
- Jan. 15, 1990: American Notes:The White House
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 33
- American Notes
- THE WHITE HOUSE
- Therapy for Sore Eyes
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- <body>
- <p> "It was like going to the dentist, only better," said
- Barbara Bush last week, after undergoing the first of ten
- consecutive days of radiation therapy at Washington's Walter
- Reed Army Medical Center. She is being treated for Graves'
- disease, an affliction that inflames the thyroid gland and can
- cause bulging, watery eyes and double vision. After her
- session, she dashed off with characteristic aplomb to the White
- House pool for her customary 60 laps.
- </p>
- <p> Last spring doctors administered a dose of radioactive
- iodine to slow down the First Lady's hyperactive thyroid. But
- treatment with a steroid, prednisone, failed to cure her vision
- problems. Should the radiation treatments (in which
- low-intensity rays are focused on swollen tissues behind the
- eyes) prove no more effective, the next step could be surgery.
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- </body>
- </article>
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