Winning the lottery can arrive at any time in life, even in the most desperate moments. This is what happened to a retiree from Carrolton, Ohio, United States, who has won 500,000 euros in the lottery while taking his wife to several appointments he had with various doctors for cancer treatment. Apparently, he decided to stand in a store to buy several things, including a tenth of lottery, which luckily was awarded.
According to the magazine Peoplethe man bought a couple of 5 euros tickets from the scrape, which is a game similar to the eleven scratch and in which he found a last scratch of best of 7 in a container, explain the officials of the lottery administration.
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When he came home, he was surprised to see that his ticket had been awarded with 500,000 euros, but of course he must take taxes, so he will have a 360,000 euros award. “I still can’t believe it,” said the man in the lottery statement. “I’m still thinking it is a dream!”
His wife with cancer is glad
After finding out and checking the prize, he told his wife, but he did not believe him. As he explained, he looked at him with a strange face and asked: “Did you fall?” I said: “No, I’m in shock! I think I won half a million dollars!” He says.
But finally the woman believed it and moved, after showing her the ticket and checking both that she had won the lottery. As usually happens in this type of facts, the administration asks what his strategy was, to which the man replied that he always likes to take those at the end of the row. “I like the end of the roll, I also buy in the middle, but I always liked the end of the roll.”
Finally, the man told the officials of the lottery administration that his prize is a blessing and pointed out that his family has been facing growing medical invoices in the midst of his wife’s cancer, that they can now be paid with part of the money.
Although the prize is not high, it can help and much, but you have to remember that there are more lucky, like this j81 -year -old Ubilad, which to collect a 44,000 euros lottery award and discovers that another 88,000 has touched And what alleges “was my day.” And on the other hand, there is not as much, like a retiree that touches him 71.5 million euros in the lottery and tell him that he cannot collect the prize.