After Ashley Judd’s “catastrophic accident” in Congo, during which she almost lost her leg, the actress considers herself lucky.
“I don’t understand why what happened happened,” wrote the 52-year-old United Nations Goodwill Ambassador on Saturday on Instagram, sharing a photo presentation. “I understand that I have been loved and helped enormously. I understand that nights are a wild agony.” Judd thanked the medical professionals “for seven hours of intensive, brilliant and inspired surgical work on my bones and nerves”, adding: “It took resistance, concentration and humility to consult some specialists across the country, whom I also deeply thank. . I loved the sweet spirit of the janitor who cleaned my room, my nourishment day girl, and always, my bright and caring nurses. “
Last month, Judd “tripped over a fallen tree” at 4:30 am in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while doing the job of conserving bonobos, an endangered primate. THE Divergent star, who is the sister of country singers Wynonna Judd, 56, and Naomi Judd, 75, broke her leg in several places and suffered nerve damage.
Ashley later told the Nicholas Kristof newspaper that she experienced “55 incredibly distressing hours”, first stranded on the ground while “howling like a wild animal” in pain, for which she had to bite a stick instead of medication. She also went into shock and passed out while waiting for help. “Without my Congolese brothers and sisters, my internal bleeding would probably have killed me and I would have lost my leg,” she said in an Instagram post on February 16. Ashley is now going to need “extensive physical therapy”.
In her Saturday post, Ashley wrote: “Now, I am in the midst of a torrent of friends and family, too numerous to mention, who have taken me into their prodigious arms because of this dizzying fall. They do for me what I cannot do. for myself – preparing meals, washing my hair with shampoo, and they also offer deep spiritual direction and the comfort of trying to start creating an arc of meaning and purpose. “
She added: “They also offer and meet my need for silence. I am lost and they are my pastor team. For everyone who came before me and walked beside me with physiotherapy, I had no idea. Thank you. I am just in the beginning and the combination of drowning in trauma and addressing the physical body is a lot. However, you did it, and I will do it too. “
A few weeks ago, Ashley traveled back to the United States and underwent eight-hour surgery to “repair the bones, decompress the nerve with hemorrhage and remove broken bones from the nerve.” She is using a walker for now.
This week, Wynonna said Page Six that Ashley had a request from her sister. “I was researching how to wash the hair of someone who is lying in bed because she sent me a message: ‘Can you wash my hair?’”, She told the outlet. “That’s where an older sister’s job resides.”
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