An active mother has woken from a routine surgery to find her left foot ‘no longer functioning’, leaving doctors baffled.
The Swedish woman, Lotta Kallin, underwent hip surgery that was ‘supposed to be the end of her suffering’ from persistent pain on January 11.
Doctors chalked up the lack of feeling and movement to the anaesthetic she had been given, however panic started to set in when nothing changed after it wore off.
While she can no longer continue her favourite sports such as power-lifting martial arts and stand-up paddleboarding, she also faces losing her job over the side effect.
Her Melbourne-based daughter, Jeanette, revealed the doctor who was supposed to operate on Ms Kallin pulled out just days prior to the surgery after falling ill.
An active Swedish mother who underwent hip surgery to try and get rid of persistent pain, Lotta Kallin (pictured), has instead been left with a side effect that’s perplexed doctors
Doctors chalked up the lack of feeling and movement in her foot to the anaesthetic she had been given, however panic started to set in when nothing changed after it wore off
The sudden news left the mother in a predicament.
She could either deal with the pain while waiting for another appointment months later or go with another doctor she had never met.
‘Since she already had spoken to her work about this, she choose to accept this new unknown doctor,’ Jeanette wrote in a post to GoFundMe.
The operation did not take place in Australia.
After spending a week in hospital and no change to her condition, Jeanette claims the hospital had ‘never seen anything like this and they don’t know what has happened with her foot’.
Ms Kallin has since been advised by neuroscientists to bide her time and hope for the nerves to reconnect on their own, but she still faces the prospect of not being able to walk normally again.
To make matter worse, she will no longer be employed as a receptionist from March 25 after her employer refused to extend her leave.
Ms Kallin (pictured) awoke to find she had no feeling or movement in her left foot and has been told just to hope for feeling to come back
Not only does the mother face losing her active lifestyle, but also faces losing her job as a receptionist on March 25 as her employer refused to extend her leave
Jeanette revealed her mother had overcome the numerous hurdles life had thrown at her and is ‘trying to stay positive’.
‘She fought breast cancer and won, her motorbike got stolen, she opened her own beauty salon and changed career when she was in her 50s,’ she wrote.
‘On top of that COVID happened which forced her to close her business and go further in debt.
‘My mum just can not get a break. She’s now stressed over how to be able to get a new job for the future and how to pay rent, food and loans.
‘All she wants to do is focus on her rehabilitation for her foot. Not worry about money issues.’
