Man Goes To Hospital From Months Of Partying After Lottery Win

A British forklift driver who became a millionaire overnight is taking a look at himself and his decisions after a non-stop, months-long party landed him in the hospital.

And no, we're not talking about that California guy who wanted a bunch of hookers and cocaine from a few years ago.

According to BBC, 39-year-old Adam Lopez went from only having about $17 in his bank account to $1.3M after winning a scratch-off ticket.

A few months later, he was in the back of an ambulance with bilateral pulmonary embolism - a condition where two blood clots block blood vessels in both longs.

“I knew what I was doing was going to come to an end eventually, and it nearly came to an end in the worst possible way. It was a massive, massive wake-up call,” Lopez said. “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 … it was enjoyable until my health became an issue."

He said the worries began when he had a blood clot in his leg, which spread to his lungs.

“I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t breathe. I rang the ambulance, I got wheeled into the ambulance from my house and the biggest life-changing thing I had was laying in the back of that ambulance and hearing the sirens,” he said.

He said the workers at the hospital were kind and helpful to him.

“It just makes you look at both sides of life because 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,” he said.

He said he regrets quitting his forklift job after winning.

“I left my job and I never should have done that. I lost the structure to my life and day-to-day living … it was a complete disconnect from the life I was living.”

With six to nine months of recovery ahead of him, Lopez said he hopes to get "back to the full version of me.”