Mary Lou Retton suffers ‘scary setback’ in hospital

Mary Lou Retton was recently hospitalized with a serious medical condition, and the gymnastics legend suffered a setback this week.

McKenna Kelley, Retton’s daughter, said on social media last week that her mother had been admitted to the intensive care unit because of a “very rare form of pneumonia.” In an Instagram video on Wednesday, Kelley provided an update on Mary Lou’s condition. Kelley said her mother “had a pretty scary setback” on Tuesday.

“Basically, at the beginning of this week we were going on the up and up and were so excited and had seen so much progress. Then, yesterday, we had a pretty scary setback,” Kelley said. “She is still in ICU and we’re just working through some things as far as her setback goes. … She had a better day today (Wednesday), which is great, just really, really exhausting. She is really exhausted.”