. >> reporter: henry morello thought he was a goner. 84-year-old had just about given up hope by the time he was rescued from his stalled car. >> after the fifth day it just, this is it. i said, they don't want me back tonight, i'm not going to make another night out here. >> reporter: he was driving back from a restaurant last monday when he got lost on a desert road an hour north of phoenix, arizona, and crashed his vehicle. >> i ran right into a ditch. and i got stuck in that ditch. then the battery went dead. my phone went did. and i went dead. >> reporter: his friends and family mounted an all-out search while he sat in his car for five days and five even longer nights. his loved ones were extremely concerned bus morello suffers from dementia and diabetes and requires daily medication. he credits his survival to eating tiny bits of leftovers from his dinner doggie bag. and at one point, believe it or not, he said he drank some of his car's windshield washer fluid. he used the vehicle's floor mats to stay warm at night. >> wished so