Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton battling pneumonia in intensive care
Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton battling pneumonia in intensive care
Retton's daughter, McKenna Kelley, made an appeal for help, saying the legend does not have medical insurance.
Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton has been battling severe pneumonia in a hospital intensive care unit, daughters of the famed American gymnast said.
A Tuesday post on a crowd-funding page by Retton's daughter, McKenna Kelley, characterized the Hall of Fame gymnast as being critically ill. Another daughter confirmed the illness to NBC News.
On the crowd-funding site, McKenna Kelley wrote: "My amazing mom, Mary Lou, has a very rare form of pneumonia and is fighting for her life. She is not able to breathe on her own. She’s been in the ICU for over a week now."
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I used to watch Mary-Lou's Flip-Flop Shop every Saturday morning as a kid. Apparently it was locally produced in Houston, where I lived, so I wonder if it was even known about elsewhere? Basically she had a Saturday morning kids' show that ran for one season, and it aired at like 6:30am. For some reason I was obsessed with it (despite being slightly older than the target demographic by the time it was airing) and I would wake up ungodly early on Saturdays to watch Mary Lou do somersaults and tell jokes.
As far as I know, it was never broadcast in Southern Indiana. But we had our own local kids' shows- Cowboy Bob and Janie.
Ours was called Pete McTee's Clubhouse