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Former Canadian Football League player and Calgary Stampeder Glenn Love joins Kelsie to talk about being diagnosed with ALS at just 35 years old. Glenn, whose daughter's first birthday was the day before he was diagnosed, talks about the grief that comes with being a young parent with ALS and about the responsibility he thinks the CFL has to educate players about the potential dangers of repeated hits to the head.  Support the show

Fellow ALS widow Willy Grant, who lost her husband, Glenn, to the disease in November of 2024, joins Kelsie to talk about the ALS information gap, misdiagnosis, learning to accept help, the personal benefits of public vulnerability and adjusting to life on the other side of loss.  Donate to the ALS Society of Alberta here. Support the show

Calgarians Dan Pubben and Kate Tuff join Kelsie to talk about their life since Dan was diagnosed with ALS in the fall of 2024 at 42 years old, about navigating this disease with their two young children, about how we respond when bad things happen and about the reality of living in the hopefully many years between diagnosis and -- what remains an inevitability with this disease -- death.  Support Dan and Kate here.  Support the ALS Society of Alberta here.  Support the show

Heather Lucier, who lost her daughter, Jessie, to ALS in 2019, joins Kelsie for three years after they last spoke to talk about caregiving, advocacy and what we do with our grief.  Compass for Caregivers Compass for the ALS Caregiver Donate to the ALS Society of Alberta Support the show

In March 2018, Jessie Ravnsborg was diagnosed with ALS. She was just  35 years old. She died just before her 37th birthday. In today's episode, our second about Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), you’ll meet Jessie through her mom, Heather Lucier. This is a story about choosing joy, about wringing out all the good from life that you can for as long as you can and, when the joy can no longer compete with the darkness of a most insidious disease, choosing to say goodbye. It's about facing your mortality, about knowing what matters to you in life and about the bravery of understanding what it means when those things move beyond your reach.  This episode of Sorry, I'm Sad was originally published in March, 2022. We are reposting it in advance of our next episode, which is a new episode with Jessie's mom, Heather, about ALS advocacy, what we owe the people we've lost and caregiving.  Donate to ALS research here. Support the show

Kelsie is back with her first episode in more than a year to talk about navigating this new life since losing Chris. Donate to ALS Research through the ALS Society of Alberta. Support the show

Kelsie checks in almost six months after losing Chris to share how she's been doing, what the doing of death has looked like , where she's at now that the doing is done and what's next for Sorry, I'm Sad.  Support Sorry, I'm Sad on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kelsiesnow Share your own stories of grief, loss and the importance of hope with Kelsie by emailing [email protected]. Join Kelsie's new Instagram page to see what she is reading @kelsiesreads. Support the show

On Chris and Kelsie's 16th wedding anniversary, almost three months after Chris' death, Kelsie talks about life without her husband and best friend.  Support the show

Kelsie shares updates on Chris' health, what his two-week stay in the ICU in December cost him in terms of function and independence, how the Snow family is adapting to life in the last six months and why Chris is not joining her for this episode. Support the show

In October Chris' disease reached a tipping point and sent the Snow family into a months-long free fall. Now, more than four months since things started spiralling out of control, Chris and Kelsie sit down to talk about what happened in October, about losses of function that started to turn the tide of how their family works and about the trauma of repeated medical emergencies. Support the show

Kelsie is back with an update on the Snow family and to read her most recent blog post, which can be found on her website, www.kelsiesnowwrites.com.  Support the show

After a tough fall season for Chris' health, Kelsie offers short update on how the Snows are doing and when Sorry, I'm Sad will be back with new episodes. Support the show

In the Season Three opener, Chris and Kelsie talk about the loneliness of longterm illness, about the difficulty of watching your person grieve losses and grapple with profound sadness, about feeling isolated and alone in rooms full of people or even next to the person you love most, and about how to let people know you see their struggle and that you care.  Support the show

In this season two finale, Chris and Kelsie answer questions submitted by followers on Twitter and Instagram about life, marriage, illness and work three years removed from Chris' ALS diagnosis.  Support the show

Steve Gleason, the former NFL safety who has been living with ALS for 11 years and been totally paralyzed for eight of those, joins Kelsie and Chris for a conversation about how he and his family are flourishing in a life most people would find impossible thanks to radical acceptance, deep compassion for themselves and each other and abiding love.  Support the show