Woman who picked up fentanyl-laced dollar offfloor at McDonald's, claims hospital didn't test her for opioid

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A Kentucky woman ended up in the hospital after picking up a one-dollar bill suspected to be laced with fentanyl. Renee Parsons was waiting to use the washroom at a McDonald's outlet in Nashville, Tennessee on July 10 when she began to experience symptoms.

Renee and her husband Justin were on their way to a work conference in Dallas with their three-month-old when they decided to halt at McDonald’s. “As I was walking inside, there was a dollar on the floor just hanging out, so I picked it up, not thinking anything of it,” Renee narrated the incident on a Facebook post to spread awareness. She said that within minutes of picking up the dollar bill, she began struggling to breathe properly, and her body went numb. As reported by WKRN, her husband said, “She looked like she was dying. She certainly was unconscious and very pale.”

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Renee wrote in her Facebook post, "Holding it in my hand I look around and contemplate giving it to the little girl I saw. Right then my husband comes out of the bathroom and I throw the dollar in my pocket, hand him the baby, run to the bathroom." She washed her hands but didn't dry them all the way. She later took the dollar out of her pocket and put it in her car door.

"As I did that I told my husband how lucky I was to find a random dollar," she continued. "Then I grabbed a wipe to wipe off my hands bc I remembered him telling me not to pick up money off the ground as people have been putting it in fentanyl. As he began to somewhat lecture me It hit me like a ton of bricks. 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."

The post added, "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."

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However, as reported by NY Post, a Nashville Metro police officer claimed that Renee wasn’t exposed to fentanyl as she didn’t require Narcan to be revived. Furthermore, preliminary tests didn’t reveal any drugs in her system. Dr Rebecca Donald, a fentanyl expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said that Renee’s symptoms didn’t indicate fentanyl poisoning. The doctor said, “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.”

Meanwhile, according to the Nashville Metro Police, officers couldn't find any residue on the dollar bill. Since no one was charged, it was not sent to a lab for testing either. However, cops confirmed they were still going to destroy the bill.