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An active mother has woken up from a routine operation to find her left foot ‘no longer works’, leaving doctors baffled.
Swedish woman Lotta Kallin underwent hip surgery that ‘was supposed to end her suffering’ of ongoing pain on January 11.
The doctors attributed the lack of sensation and movement to the anesthesia she had been given, but panic set in when nothing changed after it wore off.
Although she can no longer continue her favorite sports such as powerlifting martial arts and stand-up paddleboarding, she is also at risk of losing her job due to the side effect.
Her Melbourne-based daughter, Jeanette, revealed the doctor who was due to operate on Mrs Kallin pulled out just days before the operation after falling ill.
An active Swedish mother who underwent hip surgery to try to rid herself of persistent pain, Lotta Kallin (pictured), has instead been left with a side effect that baffles doctors
The doctors chalked up the lack of feeling and movement in her foot to the anesthesia she had been given, but panic set in when nothing changed after it wore off
The sudden news left the mother in a quandary.
She could either deal with the pain while waiting for another appointment months later or go with another doctor she had never met.
“Having already spoken to her work about this, she chose 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 in her condition, Jeanette claims the hospital had ‘never seen anything like this and they don’t know what has happened to her foot’.
Mrs Kallin has since been advised by neuroscientists to bide her time and hope the nerves can reconnect on their own, but she still faces the prospect of not being able to walk normally again.
To make matters worse, she will no longer be employed as a receptionist from March 25 after her employer refused to extend her leave.
Ms Kallin (pictured) woke up to find she had no feeling or movement in her left foot and has been told to just hope for feeling to return
Not only does the mother face losing her active lifestyle, but also faces losing her job as a receptionist on March 25 when her employer refused to extend her leave
Jeanette revealed that her mother had overcome the many obstacles that life had thrown at her and she is ‘trying to stay positive’.
“She fought breast cancer and won, her motorcycle was stolen, she opened her own beauty salon and changed careers when she was in her 50s,” she wrote.
“On top of that, there was COVID, which forced her to close her business and go further into debt.
‘My mum just can’t catch a break. She is now stressed about how 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. Don’t worry about money matters.’