I have to give proper credit to everyone for excellent advice all around. Usually there's one jackhole who'll give out some advice that's downright stupid. Well that guy must be on vacation 'cause I didn't see any bad advice here.


I will share a personal story that's put me off from ever eating wild mushrooms. Working in the CCU in Boise one night, took a patient that came from a state home for the disabled. One of the nursing assistants had shared some wild mushrooms (that looked like morels) with the kid, and a supervisor found out about it and had a fit. The kid looked fine at about 4 hours post ingestion, when he was first admitted to a med-surgical bed for just observation. At 7 hours post ingestion he wasn't feeling too good and was transferred to my bed on the CCU. At 8 hours post ingestion we were doing CPR.

I saw the guy who had shared his find with the kid. He brought in the mushrooms he had leftover. He had also eaten them as well, but wasn't sick. It only took one wrong ID out of a basket of otherwise edible 'shrooms. One kid dead, one left with a burden that'll last the rest of his own life. He was trying to be nice, and share something personal with one of the kids he took care of. It was incredibly depressing, and one of the longest code blue's I've ever done. We did cardiac compressions intermittantly for four hours. Started sometime after 1am, and finally called it quits as the early summer sun was just starting to backlight the Boise foothills.

I don't eat wild mushrooms.

"There are old mushroom hunters, there are bold mushroom hunters - but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters."

VHawk