This year’s Roe Roofing & Exteriors giveaway winner says that the new roof is a huge weight off her shoulders as she is still recovering from a serious heart attack.
To win a roof from Roe in the annual giveaway, entrants must submit a photo of their roof along with a small story about why it should be replaced.
This year two winners were chosen: one winner from Edmonton as well as Akinsdale resident Jeanette Robinson.
Roe partnered with KiSS 91.7 for the giveaway, in which entrants’ stories were voted on by KiSS listeners.
“I have a very large group of friends who pull for me and support me, and then they get their friends to support as well,” Robinson said of her giveaway win.
“My story was we've had multiple deaths in the last couple of years,” she said. “My son has been diagnosed with a severe autoimmune disease, and I recently had a massive heart attack. Being on disability and a reduced income, we need a new roof, and there's no possible way of affording it.”
Robinson, a machinist, was working full time when she had a “widow maker” heart attack, in which the heart’s largest artery is fully blocked by a blood clot.
At a recent cardiologist appointment, she discovered her heart is still pumping at only 30 per cent of its baseline capacity.
“I get tired very quickly,” she said. Post- heart attack, just vacuuming the house can take Robinson two or three days.
She hasn’t seen much improvement in her condition since the heart attack, which she suffered in April, but doctors are hoping a change in medication will turn things around for her.
“[The doctor] is hoping in two to three months the pumping action of my heart will increase,” she said. “There's been a lot of damage.”
Robinson purchased the house from her mother nine years ago, but it has been in her family since the 1970s.
The roof was last replaced about fifteen years ago, but not done well, she said. It has lost many shingles and is leaking in some places. The house also needs flooring and kitchen repairs, and a new paint job in spots.
“It's definitely a big load off of our shoulders, because we'd been trying to figure out how to afford to do the roof,” she said. “Getting the roof through Roe’s t contest, that helps tremendously … If we had to come up with the money to do the roof, there's no way we could have done any other renovations that need to be done.”
