A CANCER patient who said she has had the worst year of her life has seen her luck dramatically change with a £2.49m lottery win.

Supermarket worker Nicky Cusack, 43, scooped last Wednesday’s Lotto jackpot with a line of lucky dip numbers, but says she will still return to work after completing a gruelling course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Ms Cusack, a single mother-of-four from Pinehurst, in Swindon, said she was having the worst year of her life after being diagnosed with breast cancer in April.

She has had two operations to remove the cancer and was told two weeks ago that she was cancer free.

And in January she was savagely bitten by a pack of six dogs when they attacked her randomly in the street as she tried to protect her children from them.

“I go to bed before the lottery comes on, so didn’t check the numbers until Thursday morning,” Mrs Cusack said.

“I read the first two numbers out to my daughter Jade and she said you’ve won £10, then I stopped when I realised I had all the other numbers, but we both couldn’t believe it,” she said.