FAMOUS THYROID PATIENTS

[Guest guest]

(I have no doubt that there are a LOT more than below. Janie)

President Bush, and First Lady Barbara Bush were both

sufferers of hyperthyroidism. The unusual occurrence of thyroid

disease in the First Couple prompted an investigation into the water

supply at the vice-presidential mansion. Even their dog Millie was

diagnosed with thyroid problems! No cause was ever found, and it was

apparently just a statistical anomaly.

Rod - Rock/Pop Star, singer, writer and producer. During an

annual physical doctors discovered a nodule in his thyroid. Surgery

on May 12, 2000 removed the nodule, and it was found not to be

malignant.

Tipper Gore - Wife of Vice President Al Gore. Became the third

resident of the Blair House (the vice-president's residence) to

suffer from thyroid problems. Tipper's recent surgery to have her

thyroid gland removed because of a nodule has raised awareness of

the thyroid in general and thyroid nodules in particular.

Gail Devers - Olympic Gold Medal Winner. Her courageous battle to

overcome thyroid disease is portrayed in " Run for the Dream: The

Gail Devers Story " , an original movie of her battle to overcome

thyroid disease and win an Olympic Gold Medal. This movie was made

by Showtime, and runs occasionally on television.

Faith Ford - plays Corky on " Brown " . She was diagnosed with

hyperthyroid after suffering an episode of heart palpitations and

breathlessness on the set. She experienced a classic symptom of

Grave's disease, and told Ladie's Home Journal, " I felt like I had

sand in my eyes. " She also lost a considerable amount of weight and

two dress sizes, but like so many mistaken women, she felt this was

not a problem.

Muhammed Ali - " Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee " is this

World Champion heavy weight boxer's motto. It could just as easily

be the thyroid's motto as well, as any sufferer of thyroid disease

can attest. Muhammed Ali lost a championship fight after being

mistreated for thyroid disease.

Carl - Olympic Gold Medal Winner. Five months before the 1996

Olympics, Carl was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. He was

successfully treated and able to compete.

Ben Crenshaw - World class golfer.

Pat Bradley - Top player in the Ladies Professional Golfers

Association.

Patty Berg - Winner of the first Women's National Open Golf

Tournament in 1946 and member of the LPGA Hall of fame.

Joe Piscopo - Actor, producer, writer, singer, and comedian.

n - ( 1864-1926 ), cowboy artist, had a large

goiter that choked him, and squeezed is air pipe, and gave him dizzy

spells. He was unable to sleep, or work, and finally went to May

Clinic. World famous thyroid surgeon, Plummer, removed the

goiter. Unfortunately, for him during the pre-op evaluation, they

found severe Emphysema, and associated heart failure, and coronary

disease. He died in 1926, not long after the thyroid surgery. C.M.

Museum in Great Falls Montana, has many of his art pieces.

The best photo of him on the Museum web site shows him in a suit,

but due to his massive goiter he could no button the shirt all the

way, or put the tie on tight. See www.cmrussell.org/meet.html. for

his biography and photograph.

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" Infamous " Thyroid Patients

Gotti - the head of the Gambino Crime family in New York,

brother of the " Teflon Don Gotti, convicted of money

laundering, and racketeering, has requested a reduced sentence

because he has a thyroid condition, and is blind in one eye. The

disease was not named in the L.A. Times article. Maybe he has

Graves' Disease with a rare complication of blindness from Thyroid

Eye disease.

From: L.A.Times, Page.A10, 4/2/2004 by Goldman

http://www.thyroid.com/fun-stuff.html