A mum has claimed picking up what she thought was a 'lucky' dollar from a McDonald’s floor could have cost her her life.
Renee Parsons was driving when she and her husband stopped at a McDonald's to use the bathroom.
The mum spotted a dollar note on the ground and picked it up and, in a rush, she shoved the note into her pocket.
Renee said she did clean her hands because she remembered her husband had warned her about people lacing notes with drugs.
She said she was telling her husband how lucky she was to find a dollar when she began to feel unwell.
Renee wrote in a Facebook post: "All of a sudden I felt it start in my shoulders and the feeling was quickly going down my body and it would not stop. I said, 'Justin, please help me. Im not kidding I feel really funny.'
"I grab his arm not thinking and then my body went completely numb, I could barely talk and I could barely breath.
"I was fighting to stay awake as Justin was screaming at me to stay awake and trying to talk to 911 and find the closest fire station or hospital.
"I passed out before we arrived at the hospital, but thankfully they worked almost as quickly as my husband did to get me there. It took a few hours and some meds, but I eventually started feeling somewhat normal again."
Renee, who had been driving through Nashville, Tennessee, US, claims the police officer who took their report said the note could have been dropped after being used to cut drugs or could have had drugs on it.
"The mixture of my wet hands and the alcohol from the wipes, mixed with my bodies reaction to that drug could of cost me my life," she said.
Police later said they didn't see any residue on the note and no one is being charged, according to WSMV.
Experts also believe that skin-to-skin with the drug wouldn't have caused the reaction she had, Yahoo reports.
"It is much more likely for her to have a reaction if she had inadvertently rubbed her nose and exposed that drug to some of the blood vessels in her nose or licked her fingers or rubbed her eyes," Dr Rebecca Donald, a fentanyl expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, told WSMV.
