Kelsie Snow to talk about late husband Chris and experience with ALS

'I've learned how important it is to me to continue his legacy and to continue showing up in this space of the ALS community,' said Kelsie Snow

A few years ago, Kelsie Snow was in the kitchen doing the dishes, distraught about when, not if, her husband would lose his ability to speak.

Her husband Chris, meanwhile, was upstairs, reading bedtime stories to their kids.

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Chris was vice-president of data and analytics and assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames — until ALS took his life in 2023. The family had recently learned that Chris, who had been diagnosed with the disease in 2019, would require a feeding tube to ingest his food. Soon, he also wouldn’t be able to talk.

“All of a sudden, he yelled to me, ‘You have to look outside,'” Snow said.

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