Minnesota Woman Wins Lottery Shortly After Receiving Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis

By Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, CBS Minnesota

November 11, 2024

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Debbie Bury's passion is Blackjack. It's a game that got concerning a few weeks back when the numbers stopped adding up.

"They weren't coming together right," Bury said. "A lot of times you have to put cards in order, they just — they didn't want to play with me. They are like, 'We are done with you, you don't have it anymore.'"

Something was wrong. She quickly ended up on the fifth floor of Methodist Hospital, where a doctor broke the news she had stage four brain cancer.

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