.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Team WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell went back to ESPN to deal with the New Orleans Saints in the summer season of 2022. She left the business in 2019 after joining in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is actually a graduate of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, indigenous, as well as she has actually dealt with the NFL due to the fact that 2013. You may follow Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints safety and ALS advocate Steve Gleason is actually steady and also recovering at a regional healthcare facility after a medical event earlier recently, depending on to his publicist Clare Durrett.Durrett said Gleason spiked a high temperature as well as possessed extremely low blood pressure Wednesday, triggering his medical professional to recommend he be actually needed to a hospital.However, this wanted Hurricane Francine, a Type 2 storm, made landfall near Morgan Urban area, Louisiana, with continual winds of nearly one hundred mph. Virtually 390,000 locals around Louisiana died, and also New Orleans and surrounding regions experienced some street flooding.Durrett stated there was a worry that ambulance and initial -responders will not manage to arrive at Gleason, however "the good news is, they made it via to him at a time when Steve's wellness was actually wearing away."" They instantly supported him and also transferred him to Ochsner," Durrett said. "He remains there and steady. He's continuing to be handled, and our team are hopeful Steve will definitely do what Steve does and also soldier via to get home as quickly as feasible." Gleason's representative X account uploaded an improve Thursday early morning thanking the initial responders and the medical facility for looking after Gleason.Gleason was detected with ALS, for which there is presently no treatment, in 2011 and also currently inhales with a ventilator. He interacts using his eyes through a concentrated tablet computer connected to his wheelchair.Gleason's group uploaded a message from him Friday: "ALS is a typhoon of a condition. And on 9/11 in the middle of Typhoon Francine, energy failures & questionable phone service, typhoon ALS helped make landfall. Thanks for the highly effective passion as well as help coming from each one of you. Celebrate this possibility to be alive and also breathing. I like yall - SG." An information from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Difficult" (@SteveGleason) September 13, 2024 Gleason, a past Saints special staffs leader that participated in seven times for New Orleans, is most known on the field for his obstructed punt versus the Atlanta Falcons in the Saints' first video game back after the Superdome reopened in 2006 observing Cyclone Katrina. He is actually right now a supporter for ALS recognition and operates through his not-for-profit Staff Gleason to deliver innovation, devices and also support companies to others coping with ALS.He was actually the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Guts Honor in July. He and co-writer Jeff Duncan additionally recently published Gleason's narrative "A Lifestyle Inconceivable," which Gleason created utilizing his eyes.