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<text id=90TT0113>
<title>
Jan. 15, 1990: American Notes:The White House
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 33
American Notes
THE WHITE HOUSE
Therapy for Sore Eyes
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<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.
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<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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