.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Personnel WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell went 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 deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is actually a grad of LSU and also a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, as well as she has actually dealt with the NFL given that 2013. You can follow Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints safety and also ALS proponent Steve Gleason is actually secure and also recovering at a local area medical facility after a health care celebration previously today, depending on to his publicist Clare Durrett.Durrett said Gleason surged a high temperature and possessed very reduced high blood pressure Wednesday, urging his medical doctor to advise he be actually taken to a hospital.However, this was after Hurricane Francine, a Classification 2 storm, made landfall near Morgan Area, Louisiana, with sustained winds of almost one hundred mph. Almost 390,000 locals around Louisiana lost power, as well as New Orleans as well as encompassing areas experienced some road flooding.Durrett said there was a problem that ambulance as well as very first -responders would certainly not have the capacity to arrive at Gleason, however "luckily, they created it with to him at once when Steve's health was weakening."" They right away supported him as well as delivered him to Ochsner," Durrett claimed. "He stays there and dependable. He is actually continuing to be actually addressed, and also our team are enthusiastic Steve is going to perform what Steve performs as well as soldier by means of to receive home as quickly as achievable." Gleason's representative X account posted an upgrade Thursday early morning thanking the first responders and the healthcare facility for taking care of Gleason.Gleason was detected with ALS, for which there is currently no cure, in 2011 as well as right now inhales by means of a ventilator. He connects utilizing his eyes through a focused tablet affixed to his wheelchair.Gleason's staff published an information from him Friday: "ALS is a storm of a condition. As well as on 9/11 in the middle of Cyclone Francine, power interruptions & skimpy phone service, typhoon ALS made landfall. Thanks for the powerful passion as well as assistance coming from every one of you. Commemorate this odds to become vital and also breathing. I love yall - SG." A message from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Impossible" (@SteveGleason) September 13, 2024 Gleason, a former Saints special groups leader who played seven periods for New Orleans, is actually most recognized on the industry for his shut out punting against the Atlanta Falcons in the Saints' 1st game back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 complying with Storm Katrina. He is right now a proponent for ALS awareness as well as functions by means of his nonprofit Group Gleason to provide technology, equipment as well as support companies to others dealing with ALS.He was the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Guts Award in July. He and co-writer Jeff Duncan additionally just recently posted Gleason's narrative "A Lifestyle Inconceivable," which Gleason wrote using his eyes.