Mary Lou Retton Says She’s a ‘Fighter’ as She Recuperates at Home Following Pneumonia Scare

Olympic gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton said she faces a long battle recuperating at home from a rare form of pneumonia in which doctors weren’t sure whether she would survive. In an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show, Ms. Retton said while wearing a breathing tube pumping oxygen through her nose that she was sent home after a few days in a Texas hospital but had an immediate setback that required her to be put in intensive care in October. “This is serious and this is life,” Ms. Retton said. “And I am so grateful to be here. I am blessed to be here. Because there was a time when they were about to put me on life support.”...