.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Workers WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell returned to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer of 2022. She left behind the firm in 2019 after participating in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a grad of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, indigenous, and she has actually dealt with the NFL due to the fact that 2013. You may follow Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints protection and also ALS advocate Steve Gleason is actually steady and also recovering at a local healthcare facility after a health care activity earlier recently, depending on to his publicist Clare Durrett.Durrett stated Gleason spiked a fever as well as had extremely low high blood pressure Wednesday, motivating his physician to propose he be taken to a hospital.However, this wanted Storm Francine, a Type 2 tornado, created landfall near Morgan Metropolitan area, Louisiana, along with continual winds of just about one hundred miles per hour. Almost 390,000 homeowners throughout Louisiana died, and New Orleans as well as surrounding locations experienced some street flooding.Durrett said there was actually an issue that ambulance and first -responders would certainly not manage to get to Gleason, yet "fortunately, they created it via to him at a time when Steve's wellness was actually deteriorating."" They quickly maintained him as well as transported him to Ochsner," Durrett stated. "He remains there and also steady. He's continuing to be addressed, and also our company are actually confident Steve will certainly do what Steve carries out and also soldier by means of to obtain home as swiftly as possible." Gleason's representative X profile uploaded an improve Thursday early morning saying thanks to the first responders as well as the medical facility for handling Gleason.Gleason was identified along with ALS, for which there is currently no remedy, in 2011 and right now inhales by means of a ventilator. He interacts utilizing his eyes via a concentrated tablet connected to his wheelchair.Gleason's crew submitted a notification coming from him Friday: "ALS is a typhoon of an ailment. And on 9/11 in the midst of Storm Francine, energy interruptions & questionable phone service, hurricane ALS helped make landfall. Thank you for the highly effective affection as well as assistance from each one of you. Commemorate this opportunity to be viable and also breathing. I like yall - SG." A message from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Impossible" (@SteveGleason) September thirteen, 2024 Gleason, a former Saints special staffs captain who participated in seven periods for New Orleans, is actually very most recognized on the field for his blocked out punt versus the Atlanta Falcons in the Saints' 1st game back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 following Storm Katrina. He is right now a proponent for ALS recognition and also functions by means of his not-for-profit Crew Gleason to supply innovation, equipment and also help solutions to others coping with ALS.He was actually the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Courage Honor in July. He and also co-writer Jeff Duncan additionally recently released Gleason's narrative "A Life Impossible," which Gleason created using his eyes.