.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Staff WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell went back to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summertime of 2022. She left the company in 2019 after participating in 2016 to deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a graduate of LSU as well as a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, and she has actually dealt with the NFL since 2013. You can easily comply with Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints safety and security and also ALS proponent Steve Gleason is actually secure and recovering at a local area medical facility after a clinical activity previously today, depending on to his press agent Clare Durrett.Durrett said Gleason surged a high temperature and had exceptionally reduced high blood pressure Wednesday, motivating his physician to suggest he be actually taken to a hospital.However, this was after Hurricane Francine, a Category 2 storm, created landfall near Morgan City, Louisiana, along with continual winds of almost 100 miles per hour. Nearly 390,000 individuals all over Louisiana died, and also New Orleans and also bordering locations experienced some road flooding.Durrett claimed there was actually a problem that ambulance as well as 1st responders will certainly not have the ability to reach Gleason, however "luckily, they created it with to him at a time when Steve's health was wearing away."" They immediately stabilized him as well as moved him to Ochsner," Durrett pointed out. "He continues to be there and also steady. He's remaining to be actually dealt with, and our team are actually confident Steve will certainly perform what Steve carries out as well as soldier with to receive home as swiftly as feasible." Gleason's representative X account uploaded an improve Thursday morning thanking the very first -responders as well as the hospital for taking care of Gleason.Gleason was actually identified along with ALS, for which there is actually presently no cure, in 2011 and also currently breathes by means of a ventilator. He connects utilizing his eyes via a specialized tablet computer affixed to his wheelchair.Gleason's crew published an information from him Friday: "ALS is a cyclone of a disease. As well as on 9/11 in the midst of Storm Francine, power outages & sketchy phone company, typhoon ALS created landfall. Thank you for the effective passion as well as help coming from each one of you. Commemorate this opportunity to be alive as well as breathing. I love yall - SG." A message from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Live Inconceivable" (@SteveGleason) September 13, 2024 Gleason, a former Saints exclusive groups leader that participated in seven seasons for New Orleans, is most recognized on the field for his blocked punting against the Atlanta ga Falcons in the Saints' very first video game back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 observing Hurricane Katrina. He is actually currently a proponent for ALS understanding and also functions by means of his nonprofit Crew Gleason to provide innovation, tools and also assistance services to others coping with ALS.He was the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Courage Award in July. He as well as co-writer Jeff Duncan likewise just recently posted Gleason's narrative "A Lifestyle Inconceivable," which Gleason created utilizing his eyes.