Legendary American gymnast Mary Lou Retton is making “remarkable” progress after being hospitalized earlier in the week with pneumonia, her daughter wrote Saturday on Instagram.
“Although she remains in the ICU, her path to recovery is steadily progressing,” McKenna Kelley wrote. “Her fighting spirit is truly shining!”
Kelley revealed Tuesday that Retton, 55, was “fighting for her life” with “a very rare form of pneumonia” and had been in a Texas hospital for a week. At the time, Retton was in the intensive care unit and needed assistance from machines to breathe.
