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Mike Tirico: ...Most field goals. Look out! Right through! A kick blocked by Steve Gleason!
Touchdown New Orleans!
Michel Gleason: It's kind of unbelievable that Steve has a statue.
Steve Gleason: The statue is not about football. It's a symbol of the people in this region
who chose to return and rebuild. I have A.L.S. With A.L.S., a person loses the ability to
move and breathe on their own. I communicate verbally with the eye tracking technology.
Michel Gleason: I am Michel Varisco Gleason. I am the wife of Steve Gleason, and the mother
of Rivers Gleason. Team Gleason is a foundation that Steve and I started a year after Steve
was diagnosed.
Paul Varisco: Part of our mission is to raise awareness of this disease, and specifically
to help other people with A.L.S. to live their lives as best they can.
Steve Gleason: Communication is a key element to our quality of life. The eye tracking technology
runs on windows and surface was the latest product we have discovered where it was enabled.
Michel Gleason: All day he's on his computer, whether he's tweeting, or he's speaking. It's
powerful enough for him, which is huge.
Woman in living room: Yes! He's got it! Woooo!
"People Cheering"
Michel Gleason: I think fatherhood means almost everything to Steve.
Steve Gleason: Rivers, are you showing off?
Paul Varisco: With Rivers, its created a special bond, that many fathers and sons will never
have.
Michel Gleason: He's able to get some physical time with Rivers because he'll climb up on
his lap. Steve, when they're watching movies together, can talk back and forth to Rivers
about what's going on. In the time that he has with Rivers in his lap, I think it's safe
to say are his favorite times.
Steve Gleason: They say your eyes are the window to your soul. I suppose this means
that technology allows me to bear my soul. Although I am hopeful for a medical cure for
A.L.S., I have always said until there is one, technology is my cure.