All it took was a piece of fermented swordfish the size of a quarter to land an Arizona woman in the hospital with a rare disease that left her paralyzed and gasping for breath.
Trinity Peterson-Mayes, 24, said in a telephone interview from her bed at a Phoenix rehab center that she’s on the mend after her bout with botulism and expects to be discharged as early as Wednesday.
“Obviously I can talk again,” she said with a chuckle. “And I can walk again. But I get tired very fast. I still can’t believe how fast, and how sick, I got from that tiny bite of fish.”…