.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 the company in 2019 after joining in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a grad of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, and also she has covered the NFL considering that 2013. You can easily adhere to Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints safety and ALS supporter Steve Gleason is secure and recovering at a nearby health center after a clinical celebration earlier today, depending on to his public relations consultant Clare Durrett.Durrett claimed Gleason spiked a fever and also possessed incredibly low blood pressure Wednesday, prompting his doctor to advise he be needed to a hospital.However, this wanted Hurricane Francine, a Classification 2 hurricane, made landfall near Morgan Urban area, Louisiana, along with continual winds of just about one hundred miles per hour. Nearly 390,000 individuals throughout Louisiana lost power, as well as New Orleans and encompassing areas experienced some street flooding.Durrett said there was a problem that ambulance as well as very first responders would certainly certainly not be able to hit Gleason, however "thankfully, they created it through to him at a time when Steve's wellness was actually wearing away."" They quickly maintained him and also carried him to Ochsner," Durrett pointed out. "He stays there and secure. He is actually remaining to be actually addressed, and our experts are actually confident Steve is going to do what Steve does and also enthusiast by means of to receive home as promptly as feasible." Gleason's representative X profile published an improve Thursday early morning giving thanks to the very first -responders and also the medical center for caring for Gleason.Gleason was actually identified along with ALS, for which there is currently no cure, in 2011 and now inhales through a ventilator. He interacts utilizing his eyes through a specialized tablet computer affixed to his wheelchair.Gleason's group submitted an information coming from him Friday: "ALS is actually a storm of an ailment. As well as on 9/11 in the midst of Typhoon Francine, electrical power failures & sketchy phone service, typhoon ALS helped make landfall. Thank you for the strong passion and support from every one of you. Celebrate this possibility to be dynamic and also breathing. I like yall - SG." A notification coming from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Live Inconceivable" (@SteveGleason) September thirteen, 2024 Gleason, a previous Saints exclusive crews leader that participated in 7 times for New Orleans, is actually most understood on the area for his blocked out punt versus the Atlanta Falcons in the Saints' first game back after the Superdome reopened in 2006 complying with Typhoon Katrina. He is actually right now an advocate for ALS awareness and operates through his nonprofit Staff Gleason to offer technology, devices and support services to others coping with ALS.He was the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Tenacity Award in July. He as well as co-writer Jeff Duncan also just recently posted Gleason's memoir "A Lifestyle Difficult," which Gleason wrote using his eyes.