.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 season of 2022. She left behind the company in 2019 after participating in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is actually a grad of LSU and also a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, indigenous, as well as she has actually covered the NFL because 2013. You may follow Katherine on Twitter: @Kat_TerrellFormer New Orleans Saints security as well as ALS proponent Steve Gleason is actually stable and also bouncing back at a regional medical center after a clinical event previously today, according to his publicist Clare Durrett.Durrett said Gleason surged a fever and also possessed incredibly reduced blood pressure Wednesday, motivating his medical doctor to recommend he be taken to a hospital.However, this sought Storm Francine, a Group 2 hurricane, brought in landfall near Morgan Area, Louisiana, with sustained winds of nearly one hundred mph. Almost 390,000 citizens throughout Louisiana died, as well as New Orleans as well as encompassing areas experienced some street flooding.Durrett stated there was a concern that ambulance and 1st -responders would certainly certainly not be able to get to Gleason, however "luckily, they created it with to him at once when Steve's health and wellness was weakening."" They promptly stabilized him and also transferred him to Ochsner," Durrett said. "He stays there and dependable. He's continuing to be actually addressed, and also we are actually confident Steve will do what Steve carries out and fighter via to get home as promptly as possible." Gleason's authorities X account submitted an upgrade Thursday early morning giving thanks to the initial responders and the medical facility for handling Gleason.Gleason was actually identified along with ALS, for which there is actually presently no treatment, in 2011 and also right now breathes with a ventilator. He communicates using his eyes via a concentrated tablet attached to his wheelchair.Gleason's staff uploaded a message coming from him Friday: "ALS is actually a storm of a health condition. As well as on 9/11 in the middle of Hurricane Francine, power failures & sketchy phone company, typhoon ALS created landfall. Thanks for the highly effective love and assistance coming from every one of you. Commemorate this possibility to be viable as well as breathing. I really love yall - SG." An information coming from Steve. pic.twitter.com/pfYEwFANJEu2014 Steve Gleason - "Live Difficult" (@SteveGleason) September 13, 2024 Gleason, a past Saints special staffs captain who participated in seven seasons for New Orleans, is actually most known on the field for his obstructed punt versus the Atlanta georgia Falcons in the Saints' very first game back after the Superdome reopened in 2006 adhering to Typhoon Katrina. He is actually now an advocate for ALS recognition and works via his not-for-profit Crew Gleason to offer innovation, tools as well as assistance companies to others dealing with ALS.He was actually the recipient of the 2024 Arthur Ashe Guts Award in July. He as well as co-writer Jeff Duncan also lately posted Gleason's memoir "A Lifestyle Impossible," which Gleason wrote using his eyes.