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\n19 October 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\nMary Lou Retton has suffered a “scary setback” in her recovery from pneumonia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nMary Lou Retton is still in intensive care<\/p>\n\nThe Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast was left “fighting for her life” after being struck down by a “very rare” form of the condition earlier this month, and though over the weekend, her daughters revealed she was making progress, her family have shared a new update in which they explained the sporting legend was still in intensive care.<\/p>\n\nMary Lou’s daughter Shayla Schrepfer said in a video shared to Instagram: \u201cBasically at the beginning of this week we were going on the up and up.<\/p>\n\n\u201cWe were so excited, seeing so much progress and then yesterday we had a pretty scary setback. She is still in ICU and we’re just working through some things as far as her setback goes. So I just wanted to give an update there.”<\/p>\n\nThe bodybuilder went on to tell followers her mother had had a “better day” but she is still “really, really exhausted”.<\/p>\n\nShe concluded by expressing her gratitude for the supportive messages they have received.<\/p>\n\nShe said: \u201cI’m getting so many messages and emails and just, it’s so great to see people love on her, so\u2026 that’s it.”<\/p>\n\nThe latest update came just four days after Mary Lou’s other daughter, McKenna Kelley said she’d been making “remarkable” progress.<\/p>\n\nIn an Instagram message, McKenna wrote: “We’re thrilled to share some uplifting updates.<\/p>\n\n“Mom’s progress is truly remarkable! Prayers have been felt and have been answered. Although she remains in the ICU, her path to recovery is steadily unfolding. Her fighting spirit is truly shining! Her breathing is becoming stronger, and her reliance on machines is diminishing.”<\/p>\n\nMary Lou, 55, made history at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles when she became the first American woman to win gold in the individual all-around competition. She also claimed two silver and two bronze medals at the same Games.<\/p>\n\nShe retired from gymnastics in 1986 and went on to land cameo roles in a number of movies including ‘Scrooged’ and ‘Naked Gun 33 1\/3: The Final Insult’ as well as TV shows such as ‘Glee’ and ‘Baywatch’. <\/p>\n\nMary Lou also took part on the TV talent show ‘Dancing With The Stars’ in 2018 and came in ninth place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"19 October 2023 Mary Lou Retton has suffered a “scary setback” in her recovery from pneumonia. Mary Lou Retton is still in intensive care The Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast was left “fighting for her life” after being struck down by a “very rare” form of the condition earlier this month, and though over the weekend, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4415],"class_list":{"0":"post-47131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-mary-lou-retton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Mary Lou Retton has suffered a “scary setback” in her recovery from pneumonia.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Mary Lou Retton is still in intensive care<\/p>\n
\nThe Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast was left “fighting for her life” after being struck down by a “very rare” form of the condition earlier this month, and though over the weekend, her daughters revealed she was making progress, her family have shared a new update in which they explained the sporting legend was still in intensive care.<\/p>\n
\nMary Lou’s daughter Shayla Schrepfer said in a video shared to Instagram: \u201cBasically at the beginning of this week we were going on the up and up.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe were so excited, seeing so much progress and then yesterday we had a pretty scary setback. She is still in ICU and we’re just working through some things as far as her setback goes. So I just wanted to give an update there.”<\/p>\n
\nThe bodybuilder went on to tell followers her mother had had a “better day” but she is still “really, really exhausted”.<\/p>\n
\nShe concluded by expressing her gratitude for the supportive messages they have received.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cI’m getting so many messages and emails and just, it’s so great to see people love on her, so\u2026 that’s it.”<\/p>\n
\nThe latest update came just four days after Mary Lou’s other daughter, McKenna Kelley said she’d been making “remarkable” progress.<\/p>\n
\nIn an Instagram message, McKenna wrote: “We’re thrilled to share some uplifting updates.<\/p>\n
\n“Mom’s progress is truly remarkable! Prayers have been felt and have been answered. Although she remains in the ICU, her path to recovery is steadily unfolding. Her fighting spirit is truly shining! Her breathing is becoming stronger, and her reliance on machines is diminishing.”<\/p>\n
\nMary Lou, 55, made history at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles when she became the first American woman to win gold in the individual all-around competition. She also claimed two silver and two bronze medals at the same Games.<\/p>\n
\nShe retired from gymnastics in 1986 and went on to land cameo roles in a number of movies including ‘Scrooged’ and ‘Naked Gun 33 1\/3: The Final Insult’ as well as TV shows such as ‘Glee’ and ‘Baywatch’. <\/p>\n
\nMary Lou also took part on the TV talent show ‘Dancing With The Stars’ in 2018 and came in ninth place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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