Ashley Judd.Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/GettyAshley Juddis feeling ready to return to the Congo.The 53-year-old actress has spent the last 11 months recovering froma “grueling” accident there last February, when she broke her leg in four places during a hike through a jungle. Now, nearly a year later, Judd said that she celebrated the anniversary of the accident with a 25-mile hike in the Appalachian Mountains and wants togo back to the Congo.“Good greetings, 2022. It is nice to see you, on this, the 11 month anniversary of having broken my leg in four places and paralyzing my foot (not to mention nearly hemorrhaging to death),” she wrote on Instagram.“I have just walked a nourishing twenty five miles in my #Appalachian home-place, the #GreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark, and then romped up and down our annual New Year snowy paths on an #Alp in #Switzerland,” she continued. “All this has me feeling ready. For what? Yes. #Congo. I return now. My heart is open and eager.“Judd added, though, that she’s not sure how the experience of going back will affect her emotionally.“I do not yet know what I will feel, I know only that I will feel, and I am ready to greet the experience with curiosity, wonder, and an abundance of gratitude for every life-saving sister and brother who stroked my face, carried my make shift hammock through the rain forest for hours, wept alongside my agony, or simply laid beside me as I bit a stick while in shock,” she said.Judd said, though, that “all that is in the past now,” and she wants tocontinue with the work that brought her to the Congoin the first place — helping to save the endangered bonobos.“What is here, now, is a leg that works (with a wee limp and a some knee stiffness at times), a spirit that won’t let anything hold it back, and a desire to show up for the fullness of a beautiful life — and that life includes the endangered, egalitarian bonobos who live free from coercion. And you. Thank you for walking with me,” she said.RELATED VIDEO: Ashley Judd ‘Had No Pulse’ in Her Shattered Leg After 55-Hour Rescue in the CongoJudd has been in intensive physical therapysince her accident, and shared in August that her progress has been faster than anyone expected.“We expected my foot — if ever — to begin to move in one year,” she wrote, calling her rapid process “unheard of.““In four months to the day, she went [and] blew us all away. Now, after crying while trying to spell the ABCs with a paralyzed foot….well, you see!” Judd added. “My leg will never be the same. She is a new leg. And I love her. We are buddies. We have a come a long way and we have a fabulous life ahead.”
Ashley Judd.Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty
Ashley Juddis feeling ready to return to the Congo.The 53-year-old actress has spent the last 11 months recovering froma “grueling” accident there last February, when she broke her leg in four places during a hike through a jungle. Now, nearly a year later, Judd said that she celebrated the anniversary of the accident with a 25-mile hike in the Appalachian Mountains and wants togo back to the Congo.“Good greetings, 2022. It is nice to see you, on this, the 11 month anniversary of having broken my leg in four places and paralyzing my foot (not to mention nearly hemorrhaging to death),” she wrote on Instagram.“I have just walked a nourishing twenty five miles in my #Appalachian home-place, the #GreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark, and then romped up and down our annual New Year snowy paths on an #Alp in #Switzerland,” she continued. “All this has me feeling ready. For what? Yes. #Congo. I return now. My heart is open and eager.“Judd added, though, that she’s not sure how the experience of going back will affect her emotionally.“I do not yet know what I will feel, I know only that I will feel, and I am ready to greet the experience with curiosity, wonder, and an abundance of gratitude for every life-saving sister and brother who stroked my face, carried my make shift hammock through the rain forest for hours, wept alongside my agony, or simply laid beside me as I bit a stick while in shock,” she said.Judd said, though, that “all that is in the past now,” and she wants tocontinue with the work that brought her to the Congoin the first place — helping to save the endangered bonobos.“What is here, now, is a leg that works (with a wee limp and a some knee stiffness at times), a spirit that won’t let anything hold it back, and a desire to show up for the fullness of a beautiful life — and that life includes the endangered, egalitarian bonobos who live free from coercion. And you. Thank you for walking with me,” she said.RELATED VIDEO: Ashley Judd ‘Had No Pulse’ in Her Shattered Leg After 55-Hour Rescue in the CongoJudd has been in intensive physical therapysince her accident, and shared in August that her progress has been faster than anyone expected.“We expected my foot — if ever — to begin to move in one year,” she wrote, calling her rapid process “unheard of.““In four months to the day, she went [and] blew us all away. Now, after crying while trying to spell the ABCs with a paralyzed foot….well, you see!” Judd added. “My leg will never be the same. She is a new leg. And I love her. We are buddies. We have a come a long way and we have a fabulous life ahead.”
Ashley Juddis feeling ready to return to the Congo.
The 53-year-old actress has spent the last 11 months recovering froma “grueling” accident there last February, when she broke her leg in four places during a hike through a jungle. Now, nearly a year later, Judd said that she celebrated the anniversary of the accident with a 25-mile hike in the Appalachian Mountains and wants togo back to the Congo.
“Good greetings, 2022. It is nice to see you, on this, the 11 month anniversary of having broken my leg in four places and paralyzing my foot (not to mention nearly hemorrhaging to death),” she wrote on Instagram.
“I have just walked a nourishing twenty five miles in my #Appalachian home-place, the #GreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark, and then romped up and down our annual New Year snowy paths on an #Alp in #Switzerland,” she continued. “All this has me feeling ready. For what? Yes. #Congo. I return now. My heart is open and eager.”
Judd added, though, that she’s not sure how the experience of going back will affect her emotionally.
“I do not yet know what I will feel, I know only that I will feel, and I am ready to greet the experience with curiosity, wonder, and an abundance of gratitude for every life-saving sister and brother who stroked my face, carried my make shift hammock through the rain forest for hours, wept alongside my agony, or simply laid beside me as I bit a stick while in shock,” she said.
Judd said, though, that “all that is in the past now,” and she wants tocontinue with the work that brought her to the Congoin the first place — helping to save the endangered bonobos.
“What is here, now, is a leg that works (with a wee limp and a some knee stiffness at times), a spirit that won’t let anything hold it back, and a desire to show up for the fullness of a beautiful life — and that life includes the endangered, egalitarian bonobos who live free from coercion. And you. Thank you for walking with me,” she said.
RELATED VIDEO: Ashley Judd ‘Had No Pulse’ in Her Shattered Leg After 55-Hour Rescue in the Congo
Judd has been in intensive physical therapysince her accident, and shared in August that her progress has been faster than anyone expected.
“We expected my foot — if ever — to begin to move in one year,” she wrote, calling her rapid process “unheard of.”
“In four months to the day, she went [and] blew us all away. Now, after crying while trying to spell the ABCs with a paralyzed foot….well, you see!” Judd added. “My leg will never be the same. She is a new leg. And I love her. We are buddies. We have a come a long way and we have a fabulous life ahead.”
source: people.com
