![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/we-lost-everything-when-our-home-flooded/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1_SDC_MDG_CHP_55940JPG.jpg&description=Tracy Braithwaite, from Yorkshire, won a massive £123,076 in the People's Postcode Lottery just six months after losing everything when her family home was flooded A nurse has told of her "mind-blowing" lottery win on the back of losing everything after her house was flooded from a bathroom leak. Tracy Braithwaite, 40, won a massive £123,076 in the People's Postcode Lottery just six months after having to cancel her children's dream holiday to pay for repairs from the damage done to their home. The mum-of-two has now been able to move back into her own home in Driffield, Yorkshire, and take her children on their trip to Disney World Florida. Tracy, who works as an urgent care nurse practitioner, said: "To win 20 grand would have been life-changing for us but to win that amount is just completely mind-blowing. It's bonkers. We had to vacate our house literally the day after my 40th birthday when the bathroom flooded. "And then the money I'd saved which should have been going towards Disneyland Florida for my birthday went on the house." For the past seven months, the Braithwaites have been living with Tracy's mum, Angela, while the repairs took place. But all came good for the single mum when lottery ambassador Jeff Brazier knocked on her door last Friday, reports Hull Live. She admitted: "I just didn't think it was my year because everything was going horribly wrong, but this [win] has just completely turned it all around. We'll be able to move back home sooner than we thought." Tracy is also planning to upgrade her car and treat her children, Dominic, seven, and Lydia, 13, to another holiday of a lifetime, as well as investing in a new drum kit for her son and an electric guitar for her Metallica fan daughter. She said: "I'd love to take the kids to Lapland, it's always been on my bucket list, and I could even get a new car. "All you want as a mum is to give your kids a better life and this [win] has changed our lives in an instant." The ecstatic nurse had to put c){kind=link}
Tracy Braithwaite, from Yorkshire, won a massive £123,076 in the People’s Postcode Lottery just six months after losing everything when her family home was flooded
A nurse has told of her “mind-blowing” lottery win on the back of losing everything after her house was flooded from a bathroom leak.
Tracy Braithwaite, 40, won a massive £123,076 in the People’s Postcode Lottery just six months after having to cancel her children’s dream holiday to pay for repairs from the damage done to their home. The mum-of-two has now been able to move back into her own home in Driffield, Yorkshire, and take her children on their trip to Disney World Florida.
Tracy, who works as an urgent care nurse practitioner, said: “To win 20 grand would have been life-changing for us but to win that amount is just completely mind-blowing. It’s bonkers. We had to vacate our house literally the day after my 40th birthday when the bathroom flooded.
“And then the money I’d saved which should have been going towards Disneyland Florida for my birthday went on the house.” For the past seven months, the Braithwaites have been living with Tracy’s mum, Angela, while the repairs took place.