.Katherine Terrell, ESPN Workers WriterSep 14, 2024, 01:26 AM ETCloseKatherine Terrell went back to ESPN to deal with the New Orleans Saints in the summer of 2022. She left behind the business in 2019 after participating in 2016 to deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a grad of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, indigenous, and she has actually dealt with the NFL since 2013. You can easily adhere to Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints safety and security as well as ALS supporter Steve Gleason is stable as well as recovering at a neighborhood health center after a health care event previously this week, according to his publicist Clare Durrett.Durrett mentioned Gleason increased a fever and also possessed remarkably low high blood pressure Wednesday, motivating his medical professional to propose he be taken to a hospital.However, this wanted Cyclone Francine, a Group 2 tornado, created landfall near Morgan Urban area, Louisiana, along with continual winds of almost 100 mph. Nearly 390,000 individuals across Louisiana lost power, and New Orleans and encompassing locations experienced some road flooding.Durrett claimed there was actually an issue that ambulance and also very first responders would not have the capacity to get to Gleason, but "the good news is, they created it by means of to him at once when Steve's health was weakening."" They right away stabilized him and transferred him to Ochsner," Durrett claimed. "He remains there as well as steady. He is actually remaining to be handled, and we are confident Steve will perform what Steve carries out and fighter via to obtain home as quickly as achievable." Gleason's authorities X account submitted an update Thursday early morning thanking the 1st -responders as well as the health center for looking after Gleason.Gleason was identified along with ALS, for which there is actually currently no treatment, in 2011 as well as now takes a breath by means of a ventilator. He corresponds utilizing his eyes through a specialized tablet computer affixed to his wheelchair.Gleason's team uploaded a message from him Friday: "ALS is a cyclone of a disease. And also on 9/11 in the middle of Typhoon Francine, power interruptions & sketchy phone service, storm ALS produced landfall. Thank you for the highly effective affection as well as help coming from each of you. Commemorate this odds to be vital and also breathing. I like yall - SG." A message from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Reside Inconceivable" (@SteveGleason) September 13, 2024 Gleason, a previous Saints unique teams leader that played seven times for New Orleans, is actually very most understood on the area for his shut out punting versus the Atlanta Falcons in the Saints' very first video game back after the Superdome resumed in 2006 observing Storm Katrina. He is currently an advocate for ALS awareness and operates using his nonprofit Staff Gleason to deliver technology, devices and also assistance services to others living with ALS.He was the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Nerve Award in July. He and co-writer Jeff Duncan likewise just recently published Gleason's memoir "A Life Impossible," which Gleason wrote using his eyes.