Shoveling

[cherbam]

Someone just asked me if it's OK to shovel snow with valve replacements or if that only applies to people with stents and/or a history of heart attacks. I am not very clear on that. I thought it applied to anyone that has a heart issue.

 

[LUVMyBirman]

Like with anything......I would confirm with your card.

I am cleared to do so. Though....every situation is different.

Someone just asked me if it's OK to shovel snow with valve replacements or if that only applies to people with stents and/or a history of heart attacks. I am not very clear on that. I thought it applied to anyone that has a heart issue.

 

[JimL]

Before I go out to shovel yet once more today....
I was told by a therapist right after my surgery that no one should ever shovel snow.
Later, someone explained that the blood vessels used for bypasses react to the cold differently than the blood vessels they are meant to replace.
I shoveled my way through the first winter after my surgery, and have ever since. It's the highlight of my day, but then I don't shovel more than a few minutes at a time.

 

[fyrfytr]

I was told by my Cardiologist after my surgery that I couldn't shovel snow anymore, that is how I got my snowblower.

 

[WayneGM]

We never discussed it. I just assumed I could once I felt up to it. I was actually out shoveling a couple of times today as we had a major snowstorm and our area was hit the hardest. I feel fine, although I am tired now as I'm not used to such exercise.

 

[Susan BAV]

I shoveled snow a great deal of the time during the first half of my life depending on the climate of each place that we lived. I even shoveled for extra money on snow days as a kid, and when we lived in the mountains I would have to shovel out the entire driveway and everything.

But I definitely would not want to do that now. (I don't need to now either, having lived in a warm climate for the past two decades.)

I wouldn't want to shovel now because I think that at least some of us valve replacement people have other things wrong with our hearts, besides just the valve. I just wouldn't want to take a chance.

When we lived in the mountains, though, I also would bring the wood in for the wood stove; we didn't have a furnace but only had a wood stove for heat. That's not as vigorous work as shoveling but it's not easy work in the cold either.

 

[Ross]

I'm bumming. Can't shovel, no one to plow and no snow blower. We are stuck as stuck gets until I get someone to dig us out.

 

[hensylee]

I was told by my Cardiologist after my surgery that I couldn't shovel snow anymore, that is how I got my snowblower.

we rememhber when you got it! I bet you are using it this winter.

 

[geebee]

Can't help since we do not shovel. We live on a corner and winter (when snow is on the ground) is the only time cars don't turn around in our driveway.

I have a front wheel drive car that just chugs on up the driveway, the mailbox is at the street and we rarely entertain (except poolside in the summer) so we just leave the snow on the driveway. We have no sidewalks and no one walks anymore in this area anyway so there is just no need to worry about it, thus no shoveling.

 

[Ross]

Can't help since we do not shovel. We live on a corner and winter (when snow is on the ground) is the only time cars don't turn around in our driveway.

I have a front wheel drive car that just chugs on up the driveway, the mailbox is at the street and we rarely entertain (except poolside in the summer) so we just leave the snow on the driveway. We have no sidewalks and no one walks anymore in this area anyway so there is just no need to worry about it, thus no shoveling.

Yeah well I have FWD too, but they ain't moving no where. Only a truck is going to get in and out of here. Everything else sits too low to the ground and gets hung up on snow. Finally got someone to come and plow this place out. I'm feeling a tiny bit better now.

 

[marciemarine]

Living in Upstate NY, we had a major storm today, but luckily our snow plowing company came by at about 4am. But, our car which was parked off to the side of the driveway was under the 30 inches of snow we got overnight
and we had to dig it out. The school I work at was cancelled as was the school my daughter goes to, but my husband still had to work, so we tried to get the car backed onto the plowed part of the driveway, so we shoveled abit and drove the car back and forth, but it got stuck with spinning wheels across the driveway which had gotten several inches of snow since it was plowed. My husband just had three angioplasties since September and I'm shoveling for about ten minutes before I get frozen and go inside. We tried it again in another half hour and then again later in the day. Now, both the car and the truck are across the driveway, and they are predicting a lake effect
snow tomorrow. I figure we'll be here a while. If school is open tomorrow, my daughter can get the bus if we can't get the vehicles free by 7am. We'll
see. Truthfully, I'm just as happy staying home until the weekend if need be.

Marcie

 

[Harrybaby666]

I had to move my car so that the plows could come through

I had to move my car so that the plows could come through

In the morning and plow, and I too really got stuck.....I rocked the car back several times, but I did end up having to shovel some so that I could get the car either back into the spot or out and moved to another part of the driveway...let me tell you...with a couple of broken ribs, and no one to help, this was not fun...As for the heart, after my shoveling and I got the car moved over and out of the way, my heart rate was well above 100 and the chest pains were setting in...I hope and pray that all of us here who have heart problems take it really easy and not have to shovel unless absolutely necessary. Harrybaby