Heartfelt Cause, Life-Changing Win for Donna Heartfelt Cause, Life-Changing Win for Donna

As a 26-year Lottery supporter, Donna says: “I have friends who buy scratch tickets. I buy Heart & Stroke Lottery tickets because even if I don’t win, it doesn’t matter – I’m helping people like my father, who passed from a stroke. It’s an investment in saving lives.”

She realized she’d bought tickets a few months back.

Donna was at work with her son Jay when he said, “You won the lottery!?” She told him she hadn’t purchased any tickets. She recalls: “When he told me his friend had seen my name on the Heart & Stroke Lottery website, I remembered buying a package of three tickets.”

After finding her email confirmation for the tickets, they called the Heart & Stroke Lottery, giving Donna’s name and ticket numbers to the representative: “He said I’d won a gift card, and I said ‘Great, thanks!’ Then he said: ‘Actually you won two gift cards…and the million-dollar Grand Prize!’ I honestly thought my kids were pulling a really elaborate prank.”

Withdrawing cash a few weeks after her win and seeing “all those zeros” on her receipt, Donna says: “I had to sit down…this was real.”

With plans to gift the winnings amongst her four sons, their wives and nine grandchildren, Donna is thinking of taking a cruise. She remembers winning a gift card in a past Heart & Stroke Lottery: “I found it in my purse after it had expired. My luck has DEFINITELY changed!”

She encourages others to buy Heart & Stroke Lottery tickets: “Go for it… the best part is that it’s a win-win!”