43 Quotes About Complications

I was going to make it simple, but complications felt good.

The initial signs of Magee’s Delayed Altitude Complications were a panic disorder followed a few years later with fatigue, confusion and forgetfulness.

Delayed complications from adverse environmental exposures is well known to the medical profession. It is documented for radiation, explosions, heavy metals, poisoning, electric shocks, head injuries, drugs, and we now appear to be adding high altitudes to the list.

I am aware of at least 4 professional astronomy workers that suffered health crashes approximately 14 years after their first exposure to the 13,797’ very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea. It killed two of them and the third almost died. I call this process ‘Magee’s Delayed Altitude Complications’.

I call Magee’s Delayed Altitude Complications ‘The Curse of Mauna Kea’.

I don’t think of faith as something you need to have in the world, or in some deity or religion or whatever; I think having faith is about trusting in yourself, and trusting that you’ll know what to do when life gets complicated. I’m not scared of complications. But I am scared of walking away from something I want with every fibre of my being, without even trying to have it.

Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.