Lottery Winner Hospitalized After Three-Month Spending Spree

Adam Lopez, a 39-year-old forklift driver from the U.K. was hospitalized with a bilateral pulmonary embolism after winning over $1.3 million on scratch-off tickets in July. He quit his job and spent three months partying and buying luxury items including Range Rovers and a Barbados family trip. The blood clot in his leg spread to his lungs, leaving him unable to walk or breathe. “It’s allowed me to live a bit of a life I’ve never lived, but I think I went the wrong way about it,” Lopez told the BBC. After eight days at Norfolk & Norwich University hospital, he called the health scare a “wake-up call.” “It doesn’t matter if you have a million, 100 million, a billion, a trillion — when you’re in the back of the ambulance, none of it matters,” Lopez said. (Story URL)

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