Cancer patient Mrs. Julie Bowes-Shorten won a £100,000 bingo jackpot. After lots of sacrifices, the money obtained by playing bingo will help her pay the cancer treatment.
Now in her fifties, Mrs. Bowes-Shorten gave up her job at the Blue Boar playgroup five years ago. The main reason: pain caused by a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and the required treatment – which involved five days in the hospital every three weeks.
Since first diagnosed in 2002, her cancer has returned three times and may be up for a fourth. The shortening of energy caused by the chemotherapy makes bingo appear as one of the few leisure activities Mrs. Bowes-Shorten can still enjoy with her friends.
Luckily, Mrs. Bowes-Shorten and her husband visited a Mecca Bingo club in Norwich, England, where she won the jackpot. “I had no idea that bingo could be such a big-money game,” she said after her win. Money will be invested in cancer treatment, as well as special Christmas gifts for her children and grandchildren.
Cancer patient Mrs. Julie Bowes-Shorten won a £100,000 bingo jackpot. After lots of sacrifices, the money obtained by playing bingo will help her pay the cancer treatment.