.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Staff WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell came back to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer season of 2022. She left the business in 2019 after taking part 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is actually a grad of LSU as well as a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, and she has covered the NFL considering that 2013. You may adhere to Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints security as well as ALS supporter Steve Gleason is dependable and also recuperating at a local medical center after a health care event earlier recently, according to his press agent Clare Durrett.Durrett pointed out Gleason increased a fever and possessed extremely low high blood pressure Wednesday, triggering his physician to advise he be actually taken to a hospital.However, this wanted Hurricane Francine, a Classification 2 hurricane, made landfall near Morgan Metropolitan area, Louisiana, with sustained winds of practically one hundred mph. Nearly 390,000 residents across Louisiana lost power, and also New Orleans as well as bordering places experienced some road flooding.Durrett said there was an issue that ambulance and 1st responders will not have the capacity to hit Gleason, however "the good news is, they created it with to him each time when Steve's health was wearing away."" They promptly stabilized him and transferred him to Ochsner," Durrett pointed out. "He continues to be there as well as steady. He is actually remaining to be actually managed, as well as we are actually enthusiastic Steve is going to perform what Steve performs as well as fighter with to receive home as rapidly as possible." Gleason's representative X account posted an improve Thursday morning saying thanks to the very first responders as well as the health center for taking care of Gleason.Gleason was identified with ALS, for which there is actually currently no cure, in 2011 as well as right now takes a breath through a ventilator. He communicates using his eyes by means of a concentrated tablet connected to his wheelchair.Gleason's group published a notification from him Friday: "ALS is actually a cyclone of a health condition. And also on 9/11 in the midst of Hurricane Francine, energy outages & skimpy phone service, storm ALS helped make landfall. Thank you for the highly effective love and support coming from each one of you. Celebrate this opportunity to become vital and also breathing. I enjoy yall - SG." An information from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Inconceivable" (@SteveGleason) September thirteen, 2024 Gleason, a past Saints unique staffs captain that participated in seven seasons for New Orleans, is most understood on the field for his blocked out punt versus the Atlanta ga Falcons in the Saints' 1st activity back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 observing Hurricane Katrina. He is currently a proponent for ALS awareness and also operates using his nonprofit Team Gleason to offer innovation, tools as well as support services to others living with ALS.He was actually the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Guts Award in July. He as well as co-writer Jeff Duncan additionally recently published Gleason's narrative "A Life Difficult," which Gleason created utilizing his eyes.