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Eating a mushroom almost turned deadly
for a Nipomo man
March 10, 2010 - newtimesslo.com
A local man is lucky to be alive after eating what turned out to be a
toxic mushroom. In recent history, two people on the Central Coast have
had this kind of mushroom poisoning. Last year, a man died in Santa
Barbara. This time, a Nipomo man went through the same thing but
survived. A clinical drug and the quick thinking of a local doctor
saved his life.
The mushroom is referred to as "the death angel." Lee Sorenson is now
recovering, but eating that poisonous mushroom almost took his life.
Fortunately, he got the care he needed quick at Arroyo Grande Community
Hospital. "They saved my life really. They saved my life," Sorenson
said. He attributes his wellness to one physician in particular, Dr.
Tammie Arnold.
Now both have found humor in the situation. Dr. Arnold bought Sorenson
a cake in the shape of an edible mushroom. "I was trying to be somewhat
creative and I wanted to reward him with a mushroom that he can eat,"
Arnold said.
Humor aside, Dr. Arnold had to work fast to get a trial drug to save
Sorenson. "It was disheartening to me when he came in because I was
presented with a person who was basically coming into the hospital to
die and I'm a person who loves a challenge," Dr. Arnold said. She
decided to try a trial drug from Europe that hasn't been approved to be
used in the U.S by the Federal Drug Administration. "Early treatment
will save their life. But delayed treatment could be fatal," Dr. Arnold
added. Sorenson is only the sixth person in the United States to be
given the trial that saved his life.
Sorenson plans to stay away from eating wild mushrooms. "I think I'll
be slow to eat another one and it'll be one that I've bought from a
grocery store," Sorenson said. Sorenson warns the public to be careful.
There are about 100 poisonous mushrooms, of which 10 are deadly.
Treatment has to take place immediately after eating a toxic mushroom.
A patient usually only has about six days before it turns dangerous or
possibly fatal.
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"All mushrooms are edible; but some only once." ~Croatian proverb
-------------------- Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
There are bodies decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where
A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four winds blowing through her hair
this was the second mushroom i ever learned about, after amanita muscaria. bein interested in mushrooms, it just made sense to learn about the ones that'll kill you dead'r'n fuck haha
-------------------- i get hard when i paint.
-waka flocka flame
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