.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Staff WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell came back to ESPN to deal with the New Orleans Saints in the summer months of 2022. She left behind the provider in 2019 after participating 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is actually a grad of LSU and also a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, as well as she has covered the NFL considering that 2013. You may observe Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints protection and also ALS proponent Steve Gleason is dependable and also recouping at a local area medical center after a medical event earlier recently, according to his publicist Clare Durrett.Durrett pointed out Gleason increased a fever and also had exceptionally low high blood pressure Wednesday, triggering his physician to suggest he be actually required to a hospital.However, this wanted Hurricane Francine, a Category 2 storm, created landfall near Morgan Urban area, Louisiana, along with sustained winds of virtually one hundred miles per hour. Virtually 390,000 residents all over Louisiana died, as well as New Orleans and also bordering places experienced some street flooding.Durrett said there was an issue that ambulance and initial -responders would certainly certainly not have the ability to arrive at Gleason, however "the good news is, they created it through to him each time when Steve's wellness was weakening."" They quickly stabilized him and also moved him to Ochsner," Durrett mentioned. "He remains there and also secure. He is actually continuing to be actually treated, as well as we are hopeful Steve is going to perform what Steve does and also fighter through to get home as promptly as possible." Gleason's representative X account uploaded an update Thursday morning giving thanks to the first responders and also the healthcare facility for handling Gleason.Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, for which there is currently no treatment, in 2011 and right now takes a breath by means of a ventilator. He connects using his eyes through a focused tablet computer affixed to his wheelchair.Gleason's staff uploaded a message from him Friday: "ALS is actually a cyclone of a condition. As well as on 9/11 in the middle of Storm Francine, power outages & sketchy phone company, storm ALS produced landfall. Thank you for the powerful passion as well as help from every one of you. Commemorate this odds to be alive and also breathing. I really love yall - SG." An information coming from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Live Impossible" (@SteveGleason) September thirteen, 2024 Gleason, a former Saints special groups leader who played seven times for New Orleans, is very most known on the industry for his obstructed punting versus the Atlanta ga Falcons in the Saints' very first game back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 following Cyclone Katrina. He is actually right now an advocate for ALS awareness and works through his nonprofit Staff Gleason to give modern technology, tools and help services to others coping with ALS.He was the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Nerve Award in July. He and also co-writer Jeff Duncan additionally lately published Gleason's memoir "A Lifestyle Difficult," which Gleason created utilizing his eyes.