Mary Lou Retton 準備するs to become a grandma for the first time... after 近づく-death 肺炎 入院 and $460k 寄付 論争

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Former Olympic hero Mary Lou Retton and her family are celebrating some exciting news - with daughter Skyla 推定する／予想するing her first child.

Retton has had a 堅い year after she was 入院させるd and 認める to the ICU with a rare form of 肺炎 last October, before fighting 支援する in 'truly remarkable' fashion.

Now, though, the family has received some good news and are 推定する／予想するing a new arrival - with Retton to become a grandma for the first time.

The former 体操教師（選手）, who has one gold メダル, two silver and two bronzes from the 1984 Los Angeles オリンピック, has four daughters, but until now no grandchildren.

Mary Lou Retton (left) 提起する／ポーズをとるs with her daughters. Skyla (second left) is 推定する／予想するing her first child

The family have all gathered this week to celebrate the 卒業 of youngest girl Emma

Retton was left in 集中的な care last year after 存在 discovered by a neighbor on the 床に打ち倒す?

In a photo on Instagram, まず第一に／本来 to celebrate the 卒業 of youngest child Emma, Retton can be seen 提起する／ポーズをとるing with all four of her daughters.

In the image, Skyla, 24, can be seen showing off her baby bump in a blue dress, while McKenna, 27, and Shayla, 29, are also 現在の と一緒に Emma, 21.

Mary Lou herself, now 56, is on the left of the 発射 and appears in good health after her year of 戦う／戦いing 支援する from 集中的な care.

In an interview at the start of 2024, she opened up on the horrific ordeal, in which a neighbor 設立する her lying on her bedroom 床に打ち倒す struggling to breathe.?

She told The Today Show's?Hoda Kotb that she is 'blessed to be here' after doctors almost placed her on life support.?

Retton, the first American woman to 勝利，勝つ the Olympic all-around 肩書を与える in 1984, 明らかにする／漏らすd in her first interview since 存在 入院させるd that her 条件 悪化するd to the point that her four daughters said their goodbyes, 恐れるing she wouldn't make it through the night.?

Retton, who became the first ever American woman to 勝利，勝つ the all-around gold at the 1984 オリンピック, was left fighting for her life in an ICU 支援する in October?

Her daughter, McKenna Kelley, created a SpotFund account to help cover 医療の costs?

Retton was 最初 taken to hospital where she was kept for a 'couple of days' before 存在 sent home.

However, her 条件 continued to 悪化する at home, where she reached a 危険に low pulse oximeter level - a 手段 of the 量 of oxygen 広まる in the 血.

She was 急ぐd 支援する to hospital and すぐに 認める to the ICU, where things 'went south really, really 急速な／放蕩な', her daughter Shayla, who sat と一緒に her mother during the interview, said.?

Doctors first approached Shayla and two of her sisters,?McKenna and Skyla, to tell them they were considering 'taking the next step' of putting Retton on 'life support'.?

The medics later told the trio to get their youngest sister, Emma, who was away at college, to get to the hospital.?

Retton and her family then 直面するd questions over the $45 9,324 they received in 寄付s?

Retton and her family have not explained how much of the 近づく $500,000 raised on SpotFund (pictured) will be going に向かって her 医療の 法案?

'We don't know if she's going to make it through the night,' Shayla 解任するd a doctor telling her.

'Emma was able to get there,' Shayla 追加するd. 'So that was a 抱擁する blessing, a 抱擁する sigh of 救済, 存在 there that night.'

The sisters put their 手渡すs on their mom and prayed, while McKenna told her, 'It's okay, you can go.'?

'They were 説 their goodbyes to me,' Retton said, while 涙／ほころびing up.?

In the months that followed the ordeal, hundreds of thousands of dollars 注ぐd in from 関心d fans - which led to an unsavory 状況／情勢 of its own.?

Retton and her family 直面するd questions over the $459,324 they r eceived in public 寄付s, with the former 体操教師（選手） 繰り返して 辞退するing to 宣言する where the 基金s were 存在 spent.

In an interview, daughter McKenna said that after the 医療の 法案s are paid, the family '計画（する）s to 寄付する all remaining 基金s to a charity of her mother's choice'.

Doctors told the sisters that they didn't know if Retton would make it through the night

DailyMail.com 得るd 法廷，裁判所 papers とじ込み／提出するd in Houston that showed Retton got $2million in her 離婚 from Texas Longhorns quarterback-turned-real 広い地所 developer Shannon Kelley

A neighbor 設立する Retton unable to move and struggling to breathe lying on the bedroom 床に打ち倒す at her $600,000 home in a gated community in Boerne, Texas, in October

Neither McKenna nor Mary Lou herself have 確認するd how much of the $459,324 was spent on 医療の 法案s, or what 量 was sent - or will be sent - to a charity.?

During an interview last year, McKenna （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that her mom was left without health 保険 as she could not afford care because of pre-存在するing 条件s, 含むing 'over 30 orthopedic 外科s, 含むing four hip 交替／補充s,' 追加するing: 'She's in chronic 苦痛 every day.'

McKenna and her sisters have also 特記する／引用するd Retton's 2018 離婚 and disruptions to her speaking-約束／交戦 income 原因（となる）d by the Covid-19 pandemic as 推論する／理由s for 財政上の difficulty.

In reality, DailyMail.com 明らかにする／漏らすd in January that Retton received a 冷静な／正味の $2million from her 離婚 訴訟／進行s, and was also 推定する／予想するd to collect around $2million more in 補償（金） after a 合法的な spat with the 製造業者 of her two metal hip 交替／補充s.

Mail Sport reached out to Retton and her family for comment at the time, but did not hear 支援する.?