UK lottery winner Adam Lopez fell into a common trap that lottery winners have: spend your winnings like its water. Lopez went big. He bought new Range Rovers for him and his mom as well as a family trip to Barbados, during a marathon of spending and nonstop “partying for the last three months.” Then Lopez found himself hospitalized with a bilateral pulmonary embolism after getting a blood clot in his leg that moved to his lungs. Lopez admits now that "I left my job and I never should have done that,” adding “I lost the structure to my life and day to day living ... it was a complete disconnect from the life I was living." Luckily, Adam is recovering.
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