Living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Chris Snow, assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames is living his final hours, his wife Kelsie said Wednesday.
The former Boston Globe reporter, who also serves as the team’s vice president of data analytics, suffered cardiac arrest on Tuesday. Despite resuscitation efforts that got his heart beating again, the temporary lack of oxygen caused an irreversible brain injury, Snow said.
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“The doctors don’t expect him to wake up after that. My heart is crushed and empty. Chris is the most beautiful and brilliant person I have ever met and life without him seems unbearable. Hold your loved ones close,” she wrote on her X account.
In June 2019, Chris Snow was diagnosed with ALS, an incurable disease that increasingly paralyzes the muscles.