Part of Magee’s disease comes from the long term damage that oxygen starvation, industrial gas and unnatural radiation exposures cause to the brain, heart, lungs, skin, blood, hormones and gastrointestinal tract.

Magee’s Disease is a chronic lifelong condition that may lead to permanent disability. It presents as permanent altitude sickness, regardless of the altitude that the person is at. There is no known cure, only treatment options. Avoidance of very high altitudes by the sea level adapted human may prevent the development of the condition in healthy people.

After I started working extreme night shifts, I began to think that someone was in the telescope control room with me. I would look for the person many times and would never find them. I eventually stopped looking for the person and accepted that it was my oxygen starved mind playing tricks on me in a very abnormal environment.

Inhalation of solvents in a 40% oxygen deficient atmosphere at very high altitudes is probably not a good idea.

We routinely worked with a variety of solvents at very high altitude atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

At the age of 46 I was diagnosed with lung issues.

Magee’s Disease is also known as High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) and is a form of High Altitude Disease (HAD).

Magee’s disease is a high altitude commuting disease.

When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore protective breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air at above the legally required 19.5% oxygen levels.