.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Personnel WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell came back to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer season of 2022. She left behind the company in 2019 after taking part 2016 to deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a grad of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, and she has covered the NFL due to the fact that 2013. You can follow Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints protection and also ALS advocate Steve Gleason is stable and also recouping at a regional medical center after a clinical event earlier this week, depending on to his publicist Clare Durrett.Durrett said Gleason spiked a fever and possessed very low blood pressure Wednesday, urging his medical doctor to advise he be actually needed to a hospital.However, this was after Hurricane Francine, a Category 2 hurricane, brought in landfall near Morgan Area, Louisiana, along with sustained winds of virtually one hundred miles per hour. Nearly 390,000 individuals across Louisiana died, and also New Orleans and encompassing areas experienced some street flooding.Durrett pointed out there was actually a problem that ambulance as well as first responders would not have the ability to reach Gleason, but "the good news is, they made it by means of to him each time when Steve's health was deteriorating."" They immediately maintained him as well as transported him to Ochsner," Durrett pointed out. "He continues to be there as well as secure. He's continuing to be handled, and also our team are enthusiastic Steve will do what Steve does and also soldier by means of to obtain home as promptly as possible." Gleason's representative X account posted an upgrade Thursday early morning thanking the very first -responders as well as the health center for taking care of Gleason.Gleason was diagnosed along with ALS, for which there is actually presently no cure, in 2011 and also currently inhales through a ventilator. He corresponds using his eyes via a specialized tablet computer attached to his wheelchair.Gleason's staff posted a notification coming from him Friday: "ALS is a typhoon of a health condition. And also on 9/11 in the midst of Hurricane Francine, electrical power blackouts & skimpy phone company, storm ALS made landfall. Thank you for the powerful passion as well as help coming from each one of you. Commemorate this opportunity to become dynamic as well as breathing. I enjoy yall - SG." An information coming from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Impossible" (@SteveGleason) September thirteen, 2024 Gleason, a previous Saints unique staffs leader that participated in seven times for New Orleans, is most known on the industry for his obstructed punt against the Atlanta georgia Falcons in the Saints' initial activity back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 adhering to Storm Katrina. He is actually now an advocate for ALS recognition and works using his nonprofit Team Gleason to offer modern technology, equipment and also help services to others living with ALS.He was actually the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Tenacity Honor in July. He and co-writer Jeff Duncan also recently published Gleason's narrative "A Lifestyle Inconceivable," which Gleason composed using his eyes.