.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Team WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell returned to ESPN to deal with the New Orleans Saints in the summertime of 2022. She left behind the firm in 2019 after participating in 2016 to deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a grad of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, indigenous, as well as she has dealt with the NFL given that 2013. You may comply with Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints safety and security as well as ALS proponent Steve Gleason is dependable and also recuperating at a neighborhood medical facility after a medical event earlier recently, according to his public relations consultant Clare Durrett.Durrett pointed out Gleason increased a high temperature and also had exceptionally low high blood pressure Wednesday, prompting his medical doctor to suggest he be needed to a hospital.However, this was after Hurricane Francine, a Classification 2 tornado, brought in landfall near Morgan City, Louisiana, along with continual winds of almost one hundred mph. Virtually 390,000 homeowners all over Louisiana died, and also New Orleans and surrounding places experienced some road flooding.Durrett stated there was a problem that EMS and also very first responders will not manage to get to Gleason, however "the good news is, they made it through to him at once when Steve's health and wellness was falling apart."" They right away stabilized him and also carried him to Ochsner," Durrett claimed. "He remains there and also steady. He is actually continuing to be actually alleviated, as well as our team are actually hopeful Steve will definitely perform what Steve carries out as well as soldier with to acquire home as rapidly as possible." Gleason's official X profile uploaded an update Thursday morning giving thanks to the first responders and also the health center for looking after Gleason.Gleason was identified with ALS, for which there is actually presently no treatment, in 2011 as well as currently takes a breath via a ventilator. He connects utilizing his eyes via a concentrated tablet affixed to his wheelchair.Gleason's group uploaded a message from him Friday: "ALS is a hurricane of a health condition. And on 9/11 in the midst of Storm Francine, power blackouts & sketchy phone service, hurricane ALS created landfall. Thank you for the strong passion and also assistance coming from each one of you. Celebrate this possibility to be viable as well as breathing. I like yall - SG." A notification from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Difficult" (@SteveGleason) September thirteen, 2024 Gleason, a previous Saints unique groups captain that played seven times for New Orleans, is most understood on the area for his blocked out punt against the Atlanta Falcons in the Saints' first activity back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 following Storm Katrina. He is actually right now a proponent for ALS understanding and also works via his not-for-profit Staff Gleason to supply modern technology, equipment and support solutions to others coping with ALS.He was actually the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Tenacity Award in July. He as well as co-writer Jeff Duncan additionally recently published Gleason's narrative "A Lifestyle Inconceivable," which Gleason wrote using his eyes.