- Erin Patterson said she did a factory reset of her phone on August, 2, 2023, to remove her son’s information from it so she could add her own information.
- Patterson said she took her dehydrator to the tip on August 2 because “I was scared that they would blame me for it, for making everyone sick”.
- A doctor suggested the Patterson children come into the hospital for testing as they had eaten some of the lunch leftovers, but Patterson said she didn’t want to unless it was strictly necessary. The children eventually did go into the hospital.
- Patterson recalled visiting urgent care at Leongatha Hospital where she was greeted by a doctor who said they’d been expecting her and that she may have been exposed to death cap mushrooms.
- On the evening of the lunch, Patterson remembers feeling “really nauseous” and between 10pm and midnight began to suffer diarrhoea and strong abdominal cramping.
- Patterson said she vomited straight after the lunch, after having eaten about two-thirds of an orange cake baked by Gail Patterson and brought to the lunch as dessert.
- “I did lie to them,” Patterson admitted when she told her lunch guests that she may need some treatment for ovarian cancer that had been diagnosed “a year or two earlier”.
- Patterson said she “felt a bit hurt … a bit stressed” after receiving a message from her estranged husband Simon, advising that he wouldn’t attend the lunch at her home.
- A tearful Erin Patterson admitted she lied to her in-laws about her medical appointments because “I didn’t want their care for me to stop”.
- Patterson said at one stage she became aware of poisonous mushrooms growing in Gippsland, including some growing on her property that were probably toxic to dogs, so she photographed them.
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What happened on day 26 of mushroom trial
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