Less than a 12 months after breaking her leg in a grotesque fall, actress Ashley Judd accomplished a 25-mile (40km) hike.
The Double Jeopardy star wrote in an Instagram put up that the hike came about on the 11-month anniversary of her accident in Congo, which she stated left her “nearly hemorrhaging to death,” together with 4 breaks in her proper leg and a paralysed foot.
“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,” Judd wrote Wednesday.
Judd, 53, added that she is now desperate to return to Congo following months of rehabilitation.
“My heart is open and eager,” she wrote.
“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,” Judd continued. “And really, all that is in the past now.”
Judd thanked the individuals who rescued her in an Instagram put up final August, writing that if it wasn’t for them, “internal bleeding would have likely killed me, and I would have lost my leg.”
Last August, Judd shared a video exhibiting her strolling once more as she hiked within the Swiss National Park. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
