Ronnie Foster of Pink Hill, North Caroling was heading to the clinic for his final round of chemo when he decided to stop at a gas station first.
He purchased a $1 lottery ticket, and won $5. Before departing the store, he thought he’d try his luck and purchase two more tickets with that $5.
The first ticket won nothing. The second, however, did.
Foster told the North Carolina lottery, “I saw all those zeroes and I froze. I didn’t believe it until I gave it to the clerk at the counter to scan. When it showed, ‘Go to lottery headquarters,’ I started shaking. I couldn’t believe it.”
Foster, a retired Department of Transportation worker, won $200,000 off that ticket, which according to him, made a good day even better. Foster, who is in the midst of a battle with colon cancer, said, “I was already happy because it was my last round of chemo. Winning this made it my lucky day.”
All in all, Foster took home $141,501. Though he has medical insurance, Foster says some of the winnings will go towards the treatments that weren’t covered. The rest will be saved “for the future.”
Via Pittsburgh CBS