I’m sure a lot of you have seen the movie ‘The Horse Whisperer’. Well the book is even better and I absolutely loved the movie. The book covers more which is always the case when they turn something into a movie.
Well the man that wrote the book is named Nicholas Evans. It seems he was hospitalized because of eating poisonous mushrooms while on holiday in Scottland. His wife, her sister and his wives sisters husband all got sick after they picked some mushrooms in the woods and ate them. They were all hospitalized but are all expected to make a full recovery.
The mushrooms were tested and the tests established that the mushrooms included the highly toxic variety Cortinarius speciosissimus, which attacks the kidneys. I’m really glad they are all doing better but one thing is for sure, I won’t be picking any mushrooms and eating them. That was a good lesson for anyone that read about it and didn’t already know about how poisonous mushrooms can be.
