A nice twist of fate. In the state of Minnesota, in the United States, a patient treated for advanced brain cancer won $100,000 thanks to a scratch game, report several American media including CBS.
Debbie Bury, great-grandmother, passionate about blackjack, saw her life turned upside down in a few weeks. While she was experiencing cognitive difficulties, she decided to seek medical help and learned that she was suffering from stage 4 cancer, with three tumors lodged in her brain.
Hospitalized in the town of Eden Prairie, her life then takes another turn when one of her relatives who visited her brings her a scratch game on the theme of the Minnesota Vikings, an American football team that she likes. After having scratched all the boxes, she discovers that she has won the sum of 100,000 dollars.
Highly appreciated by the oncology department, Debbie Bury, who had been nicknamed “the queen of the hospital”, was able to count on the hospital staff to celebrate her victory. “It's not all the time that we have happy surprises in the oncology department,” said Andrea O'Hern, the department's head nurse.
“I felt like life was going to be good now,” said the lucky winner. And added: “It was destiny.” As good news never comes alone, Debbie Bury has since undergone successful surgery which should allow her to live six more years.
