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Debbie Bury with her winning ticket

Debbie Bury of Minnesota recently won $100,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket, just after being diagnosed with aggressive stage 4 brain cancer.

A Minnesota great-grandmother won $100,000 from scratching lottery tickets in the hospital after being diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer.

Debbie Bury recently returned to St. While waiting in the oncology unit at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, he won a major award; right after doctors told him they found three tumors in his brain. WCCO reported.

“(The doctor) said, ‘I want you to know that you have three cancerous tumors in your head. All I see is black and all I see is death,” Bury recalled.

Debbie Bury of Minnesota won $100,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket just after she was recently diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer. family statementDebbie Bury of Minnesota won $100,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket just after she was recently diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer. family statement

Debbie Bury of Minnesota won $100,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket just after she was recently diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer. family statement

Bury said one of his friends who came to visit him in the hospital after the news brought him a Minnesota Vikings-themed scratch card to cheer him up.

The great-grandmother has since had surgery for aggressive cancer and doctors are hopeful it will give her another six years.

“I felt like life was going to be good now,” said an optimistic Bury. “It was meant to be.”

An avid football fan, Bury lived in St. He said a friend bought him a Minnesota Vikings-themed scratch card while he was in the oncology unit at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park. family statementAn avid football fan, Bury lived in St. He said a friend bought him a Minnesota Vikings-themed scratch card while he was in the oncology unit at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park. family statement

An avid football fan, Bury lived in St. He said a friend bought him a Minnesota Vikings-themed scratch card while he was in the oncology unit at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park. family statement

Bury, an avid blackjack player, said he only recently realized something was wrong with his health when he suddenly had trouble adding numbers during the game.

“They weren’t coming together,” he said.

“Most of the time you have to put the cards in order. They just didn’t want to play with me. ‘We’re done with you,’ they say. You don’t have it anymore.’ ”