.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 behind the provider in 2019 after joining in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is actually a grad of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, and also she has dealt with the NFL due to the fact that 2013. You can easily follow Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints protection as well as ALS supporter Steve Gleason is actually dependable and also recuperating at a local hospital after a medical activity previously recently, depending on to his public relations consultant Clare Durrett.Durrett pointed out Gleason increased a high temperature and also possessed extremely reduced blood pressure Wednesday, urging his doctor to recommend he be needed to a hospital.However, this wanted Storm Francine, a Classification 2 storm, made landfall near Morgan Metropolitan area, Louisiana, with sustained winds of virtually one hundred miles per hour. Virtually 390,000 individuals throughout Louisiana lost power, and also New Orleans as well as neighboring regions experienced some street flooding.Durrett pointed out there was actually an issue that EMS and also first -responders will not manage to get to Gleason, but "luckily, they made it with to him at a time when Steve's health was weakening."" They quickly stabilized him as well as moved him to Ochsner," Durrett pointed out. "He stays there and also dependable. He's continuing to be alleviated, as well as our team are actually enthusiastic Steve will certainly do what Steve does and also fighter via to obtain home as swiftly as achievable." Gleason's official X account published an update Thursday early morning giving thanks to the first responders and the health center for handling Gleason.Gleason was identified with ALS, for which there is presently no cure, in 2011 and now inhales with a ventilator. He connects utilizing his eyes using a focused tablet computer connected to his wheelchair.Gleason's crew submitted a message coming from him Friday: "ALS is a typhoon of an ailment. And also on 9/11 in the middle of Hurricane Francine, energy failures & sketchy phone company, typhoon ALS made landfall. Thank you for the highly effective love and also help from each of you. Commemorate this chance to be viable and breathing. I love yall - SG." A notification from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Live Inconceivable" (@SteveGleason) September thirteen, 2024 Gleason, a past Saints exclusive staffs captain who played seven seasons for New Orleans, is most understood on the area for his shut out punting versus the Atlanta georgia Falcons in the Saints' 1st game back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 adhering to Typhoon Katrina. He is right now a supporter for ALS understanding and functions through his not-for-profit Crew Gleason to deliver innovation, equipment and also assistance services to others living with ALS.He was actually the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Courage Honor in July. He and co-writer Jeff Duncan likewise lately published Gleason's narrative "A Life Impossible," which Gleason wrote utilizing his eyes.