John McCarthy
SAGINAW — A Michigan woman was so shocked after checking her lottery ticket that she felt like she was “having a heart attack.”
The 63-year-old’s stroke of luck came December 30, when she bought a Lucky7s Fast Cash ticket in Saginaw and realized she had hit the jackpot.
Her prize of $855,779 left her with an “unbelievable feeling,” she told Michigan Lottery officials in a Jan. 24 news release.
“I looked over the ticket right after purchasing it and thought I was having a heart attack when I saw I won the jackpot,” she told officials. “I had my family look over the ticket to confirm what I was seeing, and then scanned it to check it too.”
With her hundreds of thousands in winnings, she plans to take a few vacations before putting the rest away for her retirement, lottery officials said.
Saginaw is about a 100-mile drive northwest from Detroit.
