.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Team WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell returned to ESPN to deal with the New Orleans Saints in the summer of 2022. She left the company in 2019 after participating 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a graduate of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, indigenous, and she has dealt with the NFL given that 2013. You can adhere to Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints protection as well as ALS advocate Steve Gleason is secure and also recuperating at a regional medical facility after a health care occasion earlier this week, according to his public relations consultant Clare Durrett.Durrett mentioned Gleason increased a high temperature as well as possessed very reduced blood pressure Wednesday, urging his medical professional to recommend he be needed to a hospital.However, this desired Typhoon Francine, a Classification 2 storm, brought in landfall near Morgan City, Louisiana, along with sustained winds of almost 100 mph. Almost 390,000 citizens around Louisiana died, and also New Orleans and also encompassing regions experienced some street flooding.Durrett stated there was an issue that ambulance and also very first -responders will certainly not be able to get to Gleason, but "fortunately, they made it through to him each time when Steve's health was deteriorating."" They promptly stabilized him as well as transferred him to Ochsner," Durrett stated. "He remains there as well as dependable. He is actually remaining to be addressed, as well as we are hopeful Steve will certainly perform what Steve carries out and also warrior by means of to acquire home as promptly as achievable." Gleason's authorities X account submitted an improve Thursday morning giving thanks to the first responders as well as the medical center for handling Gleason.Gleason was detected along with ALS, for which there is currently no cure, in 2011 and also right now breathes through a ventilator. He connects utilizing his eyes by means of a concentrated tablet computer affixed to his wheelchair.Gleason's team submitted an information coming from him Friday: "ALS is a typhoon of a disease. And also on 9/11 in the middle of Typhoon Francine, electrical power failures & skimpy phone company, hurricane ALS produced landfall. Thanks for the effective passion and help from each one of you. Celebrate this opportunity to be vital and breathing. I like yall - SG." A message from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Impossible" (@SteveGleason) September thirteen, 2024 Gleason, a past Saints special staffs captain who participated in seven periods for New Orleans, is actually most known on the area for his blocked out punt versus the Atlanta ga Falcons in the Saints' very first game back after the Superdome reopened in 2006 observing Cyclone Katrina. He is actually now an advocate for ALS understanding as well as functions by means of his nonprofit Staff Gleason to provide modern technology, tools and also help solutions to others coping with ALS.He was actually the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Tenacity Award in July. He and also co-writer Jeff Duncan additionally recently posted Gleason's narrative "A Life Impossible," which Gleason wrote using his eyes.