Sickness Quotes

“But sympathy we cannot have. Wisest Fate says no. If her children, weighted as they already are with sorrow, were to take on them that burden too, adding in imagination other pains to their own, buildings would cease to rise; roads would peter out into grassy tracks; there would be an end of music and of paintings; one great sigh alone would rise to Heaven, and the only attitudes for men and women would be those of horror and despair. As it is, there is always some little distraction—an organ grinder at the corner of the hospital, a shop with book or trinket to decoy one past the prison or the workhouse, some absurdity of cat or dog to prevent one from turning the old beggar's hieroglyphic of misery into volumes of sordid suffering, and the vast effort of sympathy which those barracks of pain and discipline, those dried symbols of sorrow, ask us to exert on their behalf, is uneasily shuffled
off for another time.”
― Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill

“After five years of visits to four different sleep doctors, I was eventually diagnosed with positional sleep apnea.”
― Steven Magee

“The sleep doctor was evaluating me for a BiPAP machine, as the CPAP machine was triggering altitude sickness, chronic fatigue, sleepiness and gastrointestinal problems.”
― Steven Magee

“I associate high altitudes with oxygen starvation, high radiation and ‘Summit Brain’.”
― Steven Magee

“I have many pre-existing conditions.”
― Steven Magee

“The government is devouring the health of the masses for its own gain.”
― Steven Magee

“I am well on my way to being known as one of the world’s leading ‘Altitude Sickness’ researchers.”
― Steven Magee

“Research facilities can be very toxic workplaces.”
― Steven Magee

“I am allergic to high altitude professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“I am allergic to the altitude of Tucson, Arizona, USA.”
― Steven Magee

“Mauna Kea is in the process of revealing its dirty secrets.”
― Steven Magee

“Not descending to sea level after developing high altitude sickness is a mistake that may come to haunt you a decade later.”
― Steven Magee

“It was through researching my disabling sickness that I concluded professional astronomers are a toxic group of people.”
― Steven Magee

“Altitude can give you a bad attitude.”
― Steven Magee

“It was clear I had radiation sickness. But it was not acute radiation syndrome or chronic radiation syndrome. It was low level radiation sickness (LLRS). It was more like the sickness cancer patients that have radiation treatment get.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“There was another form of radiation sickness I was experiencing. It was solar radiation induced diarrhea! Probably the most unpleasant form, as it was the most frequent form of radiation sickness I would see.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity is the plague of modern technology!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“I am redefining the field of altitude sickness.”
― Steven Magee

“I had diarrhea and abdominal pain. It started in January 2018 after a strange non-contagious flu-like sickness during the new year. I was not the only one to get this sickness, it was one of the worst flu seasons in modern history.”
― Steven Magee

“I lived in Tucson for fifteen years and was sickly the entire time!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Traveling around the island had revealed I was being affected by altitude changes. I had noticed on days out from the campsite that I would be fatigued the following day. Altitude testing showed this fatigue reaction would occur whenever I spent time above one thousand feet. The longer I was above one thousand feet, the more fatigued I would be the next day and it would often increase forgetfulness and confusion. Once I started avoiding traveling past several hundred feet in altitude, I was much healthier! I call this sickness “Altitude Hypersensitivity”, as it was previously thought that altitude sickness only occurred above 4,900 feet.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Itchy ‘Altitude Fleas’ was the most unpleasant experience I had when I was characterizing Altitude Hypersensitivity!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Insomnia can be one of the first symptoms of hypoxia.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“I was researching altitude sickness and became aware that creatine was a known treatment for the “Hypoxia Blues” that people experience when living in high altitude cities.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Magee’s disease has a myriad of health issues associated with it.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“When I was really sick, no one in the medical profession understood Magee’s Disease.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“The rest of my life will be spent observing the progression of the underlying damage hypoxia has done to me. Residing below the 1,000 feet threshold where altitude sickness occurs in me is no magic cure for Magee’s Disease. It helps, but the underlying environmental biological damage is still there.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“The new altitude sickness classification scheme has four types: 1. Altitude Hypersensitivity – Above sea level to 4,900 feet. 2. High altitude - 4,900 to 11,500 feet.
3. Very high altitude - 11,500 to 18,000 feet.
4. Extreme altitude - Above 18,000 feet.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Truckers that drive all over the USA are often in hypoxic environments!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Hypoxia, enlightenment and the pursuit of retirement age.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease