Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike's attorneys said this week that their client suffered from pneumonia and a blood clot, couldn't swallow, and was unable to move her arms or hands when she woke up from her botched execution. 

Pike's attorneys said they were told that their client was brain-dead on Monday but that by Tuesday she was awake and talking to her medical team, though she was confused and disoriented at first.

The inmate's team said she was "taking limited steps," with help, by Thursday, and is moving around her hospital room, but that the drugs could have lasting consequences for her mobility. 

"She is up and walking for the first time today, but just around the room, not very far," Pike's attorney Stephen Ferrell told BBC News.

Ferrell also said her cognition is "foggy" and warned she could suffer "permanent damage."

"I think it's kind of good and bad," he said. "Good that she is fairly with it, but she's also somewhat foggy. She can lose her train of thought really easily and forgets where she's going."

Her hands and arms have been described as "tremendously swollen," according to CBS News. 

"Her hands looked like if you were to blow up a surgical glove," another one of Pike's attorneys, Randy Spivey, told reporters at a Wednesday news conference. "It was extraordinary ... We don't know what function she will regain."

The development comes after Pike survived two doses of the lethal injection pentobarbital last week. Pike was convicted of killing former classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995 when Pike was just 18-years-old.

Chancellor I'Ashea Myles has ordered the state to preserve "relevant evidence" of its failed attempt to execute Pike, including "drugs, IV lines, needles, catheters, medical supplies, restraints, gurneys" and anything else in the execution chamber at the time of the procedure.

Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee has halted future execution attempts in light of the botched injections and has ordered a "comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred." The next attempt will not take place this year.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.