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Love, Life, ALS
Sep 18, 2025
48m 49s
Calculating the Cost: Willy and Glenn's Story
Jun 30, 2025
54m 02s
There’s No Running From It: Dan and Kate's Story
Jun 26, 2025
1h 18m 14s
What Are We Going To Do With It?
Jun 23, 2025
49m 37s
From the Archives: Jessie's Story
Jun 20, 2025
1h 33m 57s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 9/18/25 |  Love, Life, ALS | 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 | 48m 49s | ||||||
| 6/30/25 | Calculating the Cost: Willy and Glenn's Story | 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 | 54m 02s | ||||||
| 6/26/25 | There’s No Running From It: Dan and Kate's Story | 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 | 1h 18m 14s | ||||||
| 6/23/25 | What Are We Going To Do With It? | 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 | 49m 37s | ||||||
| 6/20/25 | From the Archives: Jessie's Story | 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... | 1h 33m 57s | ||||||
| 6/18/25 | Present Tense | 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 | 49m 27s | ||||||
| 3/7/24 | The Doing is Done | 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 stories@sorryimsad.com. Join Kelsie's new Instagram page to see what she is reading @kelsiesreads. Support the show | 44m 29s | ||||||
| 12/15/23 | Into the Void | 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 | 40m 52s | ||||||
| 6/13/23 | The Sound of Silence | 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 | 57m 48s | ||||||
| 2/23/23 | Losing the Easy: Chris & Kelsie on Chris' October Health Crisis | 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 | 1h 11m 57s | ||||||
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| 2/15/23 | What Remains | 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 | 21m 22s | ||||||
| 11/29/22 | An Update From Kelsie | 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 | 9m 40s | ||||||
| 10/5/22 | Chris & Kelsie: The Loneliness of Longterm Illness | 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 | 1h 14m 00s | ||||||
| 6/15/22 | Q&A: Chris and Kelsie Answer Your Questions | 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 | 1h 06m 44s | ||||||
| 5/25/22 | Living Impossible: Steve Gleason on Radical Acceptance & Life with ALS | 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 | 1h 07m 55s | ||||||
| 5/18/22 | Not According to Plan: Nicole Briscoe on Infertility and Miscarriage | Photos of ESPN SportsCenter anchor Nicole Briscoe’s family look like a dream life, but infertility and the isolation and shame it causes are an all-too-common nightmare. Nicole and her husband, professional race-car driver Ryan Briscoe, worked for 10 years to make their picture-perfect family. The end result was two beautiful little girls. The path to that point involved seemingly endless cycles of hormones, needles, IVF treatments, never being diagnosed with a disease that can directly... | 1h 25m 22s | ||||||
| 5/11/22 | What if it All Works Out: One Year Later with Sandra Abrevaya | One year after her first appearance on Sorry, I'm Sad, Sandra Abrevaya joins Kelsie to talk about her life over the last 12 months, their friendship and their husband's shared illnesses. Sandra cofounded I Am ALS and Synapticure with her husband, Brian, after he was diagnosed with ALS about five years ago. More than an interview, this is a conversation between two friends, two women, two mothers, two wives, trying to make sense of lives they never envisioned for themselves, trying to find a... | 1h 38m 35s | ||||||
| 5/4/22 | Where We Go From Here: ICU Doctor Darren Markland on Weathering the Pandemic | The pandemic that never ends is still disrupting our daily lives and killing many, many people no matter how tired of it we are. Darren Markland is an ICU doctor at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and has been in the trenches since the pandemic started. His twitter account, @drdagly, has swelled to more than 55,000 followers since he began recounting raw, broken-down stories of patients he has treated. He joins Sorry, I'm Sad to talk about the state of the pandemic,... | 1h 02m 46s | ||||||
| 4/6/22 | Aftershocks: The Fallout of a Stroke at 34 Years Old | Four years removed from her stroke, Kelsie and Chris talk about how it happened, the physical healing required in the weeks and months after her six-day hospital stay in 2018 and the emotional healing that they realize is still unresolved. Support the show | 1h 19m 14s | ||||||
| 3/23/22 | Today I Choose Joy: Jessie's Life & Death with ALS | 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... | 1h 32m 22s | ||||||
| 3/9/22 | A Good Death: Ryan Leslie on His Mom’s Use of Medical Assistance in Dying | Over the course of the next two episodes you’ll hear two very different stories about two very different lives. 70-year-old Laurel and 36-year-old Jessie had no connection in life, but they both had progressive, incurable diseases that steadily robbed them of independence and quality of life. They both also lived in Calgary, and that meant they had access to Alberta Health Care’s Medical Assistance in Dying program, also known as MAiD. Both women, whose lives traveled such different ar... | 1h 03m 05s | ||||||
| 2/23/22 | A New Normal: The Gill's Story, Part Two | In 2018, Dr. Richi Gill and his wife Raman were living the life they had worked so far for -- after the gruelling years of starting a family during Richi's surgical residency, the Gills were back in their hometown of Calgary surrounded by their friends and family and Richi was living out his dream as a successful bariatric surgeon. Their three children, Saava, Akaash and Arwyn, were 8, 6, and 5 years old. It was a beautiful, happy life. Then, on Valetine's Day that year, Richi suffere... | 1h 34m 02s | ||||||
| 2/16/22 | A New Normal: Richi & Raman Gill on Loving a Life They Never Imagined | By 2018, Dr. Richi Gill and his wife Raman were living the life they had worked so far for -- after the gruelling years of starting a family during Richi's surgical residency, the Gills were back in their hometown of Calgary surrounded by their friends and family and Richi was living out his dream as a successful bariatric surgeon. Their three children, Saava, Akaash and Arwyn, were 8, 6, and 5 years old. It was a beautiful, happy life. Then, on Valetine's Day that year, Richi suffere... | 1h 18m 36s | ||||||
| 2/2/22 | I Never Got to Hold Her: Honoring Aria, Born Sleeping | In 2017 Jeff and Jill Quigley had two little boys and were excited to add a third child to their family, but at Jill's 18-week ultrasound everything came undone. Baby Aria had cardiomyopathy -- a heart incompatible with life. For the first time in their marriage, Jeff and Jill had to navigate grief together, and they had to help their 4- and 6-year old sons understand what was happening as well. Support the show | 59m 55s | ||||||
| 1/19/22 | The Stories We Share: Nicky Elson on Her Mother's Death | On a sunny day in August 2005, Nicky Elson, along with her parents and a friend, decided to float down the Bow River, a quintessential summertime activity for Calgarians and one that changed the Elson family forever. Nicky and Kelsie talk about the trauma of that day and about the grief and heartache that followed. Trigger warning: this episode contains conversation about drowning. Support the show | 1h 15m 43s | ||||||
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