Within an hour, the entire family was fighting for space in the bathroom. Sapna’s heart lurched as she remembered the mushrooms. What if this wasn’t a stomach bug? She’d never picked a bad mushroom before, but how confident was she that the ones she served were edible? To be safe, she packed the family into the car and went to the ER. She was glad she did. Those mushrooms hadn’t been hen of the woods: they were jack-o’-lanterns, a toxic variety. The family received fluids and were monitored for food poisoning.
