After a significant Powerball victory in North Carolina, a lottery player no longer needs to postpone surgery.

Ronda Isaac just discovered she had won a Powerball prize, and she immediately made plans for how she would use her winnings.

According to a press release from the North Carolina Education Lottery on January 11, she reportedly told officials, “I finally receive my new knees.”

Isaac, 57, a mortician in Lincolnton, North Carolina, claimed she had put off getting a double knee replacement for years.

“When you work standing up all the time, that’s pretty exciting,” she told officials.

According to lottery officials, Isaac purchased her lucky $3 Quick Pick ticket using the lottery app for the Saturday, January 7 drawing. Her first winning combination was $50,000, but when the 3X Power Play multiplier landed, she won an additional $150,000.


Her take-home pay after taxes was $106,876. She informed officials that she would put any prize money she had following surgery into her savings.

About 40 miles to the northwest of Charlotte is Lincolnton.

“I was kind of in shock,” Isaac said. “I’ve never won any big prizes before.”