Christa Pike's attorney says she's 'up and walking' more than a week after botched execution

Christa Pike, the Tennessee death row inmate who survived two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital last week, is "up and walking," according to one of her lawyers.

"What's been described to me is that physically there's quite a bit going on, that her arms are very injured and she's not able to use them very much," attorney Stephen Ferrell told BBC Radio 4 early Thursday. "She is up and walking for the first time today, but just around the room, not very far."

He went on to say it remains unclear whether she suffered "permanent damage" and that her head is "somewhat foggy."

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"She can lose her train of thought really easily and forgets where she's going," he said.

Neither Ferrell nor a spokesperson for Pike's legal team responded to requests for comment Thursday morning.

Dr. Joel Zivot, an anesthesiologist who advises Pike's legal team, told Fox News Thursday that he believes she's still in the intensive care unit.

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Randy Spivey, another attorney for Pike, said outside a Nashville courthouse Wednesday that her legal team did not expect her to wake up, believing she was "brain dead" Monday evening.

"To the shock of everyone, including me, including her team and including the medical team, Christa woke up and began talking," he said. "I do not have an explanation for what happened between Monday night and Tuesday morning, but what we do know is that Christa has a long road to recovery."

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Her first words upon waking were "Where am I?" and "Who are you?" he added, explaining that the ordeal left her "angry and confused."

Pike is believed to be the first person in modern history to survive an attempted lethal injection, according to her attorneys and experts on the death penalty.

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She has pneumonia, cannot swallow and has a blood clot in one arm, Spivey said. He described her hands as looking "like if you were to blow up a surgical glove" and said he wasn't sure if she'll ever be able to use them again.

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Davidson County Chancery Court Judge I'Ashea Myles granted Pike's emergency motion to preserve evidence from the .

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