DISPATCH: Please respond.
We have reports of a man slumped over in a car.
A dark Chrysler.
[siren]
Park Ave and Ashburton Ave, for a male
slumped over the wheel.
Dark Chrysler.
I'm ready to go.
Is this it? Oh, yeah.
Hey. What's up?
Hey, hey, what's going on, guys?
- He's just sleeping. - Just sleeping?
- Yeah. - OK, turn the car off for me.
Just take the keys out of the ignition.
OK?
We're not PD.
What's going on, sweetheart?
I have a pinch in my neck.
OK. What's your name?
- Dan. - Hi, Dan.
Can we get you out of the car and take a look at you?
Yeah.
We arrive on scene.
The guy is in the driver's seat, and he's kind of reclined back,
and he has a friend in the passenger seat.
I can't figure out what's going on at this moment.
I think he's either intoxicated or he's over dosing.
Or he's had a freaking heart attack.
I don't think that he's just sleeping
not in my heart of Yonkers. - All right.
So let me check you out. Uncross you legs.
Just relax. Look at me, look at me.
- Hmm. - You have a pinched neck?
A pinched nerve in your neck?
Yes.
Look at me, open your eyes.
This is numb.
Do you have pain anywhere else?
It's radiating through.
Man, how long you've been dealing
with this pinched nerve, man?
It's been a week and a half.
Week and a half?
What are you taking for it?
Oxycodone.
It's telling me that your blood pressure is high.
Other than oxy, you take any medications?
Yes.
Nimodipine, clonidine, metoprolol.
Hypertension.
Anxiety.
- Oh, my god. - All right.
We are going to take you to the hospital, all right?
Can't figure out what's going on.
I'll ride this one, all right?
Something is not right.
He's aware enough to answer the questions.
But he's not with it.
He has pinpoint pupils.
He admitted to taking oxy for pain in his neck.
What's going on, babe?
Because you're in a lot of pain, honey?
What's happening to this guy medically
that whatever he's taking could interfere, could potentially,
you know, could make it worse.
I know talking may be a little difficult for you right now.
But I just need a couple more things out of you, all right?
Alice, was he having spasms when you were back here?
What kind of spasms?
Seizure looking like.
Dan, Dan, Dan.
I might take this.
It's making me nervous.
All right.
There we go.
Dan, Dan, Dan.
You going to run a line?
Yeah, I'm going to pop a line in just in case.
Honey, I'm just going to put an IV in your hand
just for precaution, OK?
No, no, no.
No?
We just got to have it just in case something happens.
All right, my friend, you're going to feel a little pinch,
OK?
You are doing great.
Relax, relax, breathe, breathe, breathe.
Relax, baby.
We're almost done. Don't move.
- You're doing great. - Whoa.
It's out. here.
OK, straighten your arm out.
Oh, man.
Come on, relax, relax.
- You're doing great. it's in. - [beep]
Now breathe. That's it.
We're done. - All done.
That's it. Beautiful.
All right.
Let's rock and roll. OK.
All right.
We got it in.
And we're off.
See ya.
[siren]
You know where you are right now?
Going to the hospital.
Do you know what today is?
Thursday.
So today is not Thursday.
It's Friday, my friend.
There's just something not right.
He's presenting as if he's on narcotics of some sort.
So you know I put an IV just for precaution.
Just in case Narcan needs to be administered
en route to the hospital.
But is he having seizures?
Is he having a stroke?
It's medicine in detective work squished together,
and sometimes it's frustrating because you never
find out what was going on.
We're here at the hospital, hon. OK?
[inaudible] - Watch your toes?
Did you see any of the spasms that I was talking about?
- No. - You good?
Yeah.
Did you see how his friend was looking at us
when we were walking over?
Because I said to him, we're not cops, we're paramedics.
And he's like, oh.
Definitely do believe he may have been on something.
The convulsions made me a little nervous.
But I don't think that was a thing.
I think that was just kind of hectic.
Yeah.
I think he just took a cocktail
of assorted medications.
And I didn't know if I would have to give Narcan.
But he seemed as though if I woke him up any more
he might be extremely agitated.
Yes.
It sounded like he may have taken
one thing with the wrong thing and got the reaction
he was not looking for.