Prologue, continued

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Prologue, continued

After about an hour both Tom and his wife began to experience dizziness with increasing disorientation. They called a daughter and told her about their symptoms and that they had eaten mushrooms for lunch. At her urging they, as well has the daughter, called 911. At that point Tom’s wife was convinced she was dying and was spouting gibberish. When the EMT’s arrived, Tom tried to walk out with them when he suddenly vomited and collapsed. From that point on Tom had very little to no recollection what was happening. Both he and his wife were intubated and flown by helicopter to a large medical center that would be capable of doing a liver transplant and/or dialysis should such services be required.
Fortunately, Tom and his wife survived and suffered no permanent consequences of their toxic mushroom ingestion. The mushrooms that Tom had collected were later identified as Amanita pantherina, a toxic mushroom which, when Tom had collected them, had lost most of their universal veil remnants, also called scales or warts, on the caps (See diagram Anatomy of a Mushroom) and resembled A. velosa.
Image of Amanita pantherina courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Image of Amanita velosa courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Amanita pantherina
Amanita velosa