Story highlights Gina and Len Short won $250,000 in a drawing last week

They won $1 million in another drawing this year

(CNN) Sometimes, the person who deserves to win the lottery actually does. And sometimes, she wins it twice.

Gina Short, who was diagnosed with breast cancer six years ago and is still undergoing chemotherapy, had a feeling she would get lucky. So she had her husband, Len, pick up an All or Nothing ticket at a Publix grocery store in Cornelius, N.C.

The couple won $250,000 in last week's drawing.

That's already reason to celebrate. But here's something even better: Just three months earlier, the couple won $1 million in the Ultimate Millions second-chance drawing.

Len and Gina Short won $1 million three months ago.

"We're still in disbelief mode," Short said.

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