Mary Lou Retton 'in recovery mode' after pneumonia hospitalisation
Mary Lou Retton has been released from hospital after contracting pneumonia.
In a Monday Instagram post, the Olympian's daughter McKenna Lane Kelley announced that Mary had been released from the hospital and was recovering from her health scare at home.
"Mom is HOME & in recovery mode," McKenna's post read. "We still have a long road of recovery ahead of us, but baby steps. We are overwhelmed with the love and support from everyone. Grateful doesn't scrape the surface of the posture of our hearts."
She continued, "Thank you Jesus, thank you doctors & nurses, thank you to this loving community of support."
McKenna first revealed on 10 October that the 55-year-old former gymnast had been hospitalised with pneumonia and taken to the intensive care unit (ICU).
"My amazing mom, Mary Lou, has a very rare form of pneumonia and is fighting for her life," she wrote on a fundraising page at the time. "She is not able to breathe on her own. She's been in the ICU for over a week now."
