Olympic gold medalist and legendary U.S. gymnast Mary Lou Retton is “fighting for her life” in the intensive care unit battling a rare form of pneumonia.
Olympic gold medalist and legendary U.S. gymnast Mary Lou Retton is “fighting for her life” in the intensive care unit battling a rare form of pneumonia, according to a spotfund account set up by her daughter.
The post, which was created by McKenna Kelley, said that Retton had been in the ICU for “over a week” and had not been able to “breathe on her own.”
“My amazing mom, Mary Lou, has a very rare form of pneumonia and is fighting for her life,” Kelley wrote on spotfund.
