Ashley Judd has endured a harrowing experience since shattering her leg last month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
But the two-time Golden Globe nominee is now recovering at home, where she’s surrounded by the support of friends and family.
She’s staying optimistic while ‘drowning in trauma’ from the painful experience and took to Instagram Saturday with an update on how she’s recovering for her 497,000 followers.
Drowning in trauma: Ashley Judd is staying optimistic while ‘drowning in trauma’ from the painful experience of shattering her leg last month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The 52-year-old actress began the caption with the Zen proverb: ‘If I understand, things are just as they are. If I do not understand, things are just as they are.’
She continued: ‘I do not understand why what has happened has happened. I do understand I have been loved and helped enormously. I understand nights are a savage agony.’
Ashley thanked her doctors Phil Kregor and Todd A Rubin for ‘seven hours of intensive, brilliant, inspired surgical work on my bones and nerve.’
She also showed her appreciation for the nurses, nutritionists and janitors that looked after her during her hospitalization.
Zen proverb: The 52-year-old took to Instagram Saturday with an update for her 497K followers, beginning the caption with the Zen proverb: ‘If I understand, things are just as they are. If I do not understand, things are just as they are’ (pictured in March, 2018)
Best sister ever: Ashley also included a photo of older sister Wynonna Judd, 56, washing her hair in an inflatable sink, to keep her patient comfortable in bed
Part of the job: Wynonna recently updated Page Six: ‘I was looking up how to wash hair for someone who’s lying down in bed because she texted me, “Can you wash my hair?” Therein lies the job of a big sister right there’ (pictured in November, 2019)
The Double Jeopardy star wrote: ‘Now, I am in the bosom of a stream of friends and family, too numerous to mention, who have caught me in their soft arms from this precipitous fall.
‘They do for me what I cannot do for myself – prepare meals, shampoo my hair, and they also offer the deep spiritual direction and consolation of trying to begin to craft an arc of meaning and purpose. They also offer and meet my need for quiet. I am lost and they are my shepherd’s staff.
‘To all who have gone before me and walk beside me with physical therapy, I had no idea. Thank you. I am only at beginning and the combination of drowning in trauma and addressing the physical body is a lot. Yet you have done it, and so will I.’
She posted the caption with a photo of herself and cousin Rachel Sager under a beautiful mosaic piece entitled Truthseeker, which Rachel created, inspired by Ashley.
Savage agony: Ashley continued: ‘I do not understand why what has happened has happened. I do understand I have been loved and helped enormously. I understand nights are a savage agony’
Thankful: She thanked her doctors Phil Kregor and Todd A Rubin for ‘seven hours of intensive, brilliant, inspired surgical work on my bones and nerve’
Home sweet home: The Double Jeopardy star wrote: ‘Now, I am in the bosom of a stream of friends and family, too numerous to mention, who have caught me in their soft arms from this precipitous fall’
Only the beginning: She added: ‘To all who have gone before me and walk beside me with physical therapy, I had no idea. Thank you. I am only at beginning and the combination of drowning in trauma and addressing the physical body is a lot. Yet you have done it, and so will I’
Ashley also included a photo of older sister Wynonna Judd, 56, washing her hair in an inflatable sink, to keep her patient comfortable in bed.
Wynonna recently updated Page Six: ‘I was looking up how to wash hair for someone who’s lying down in bed because she texted me, “Can you wash my hair?” Therein lies the job of a big sister right there.’
Ashley broke her leg in four places and sustained nerve damage last month, after tripping over a tree in the dark, while tracking bonobos, an endangered ape species.
The Divergent actress was transported at a hospital in South Africa after a 55-hour rescue mission, before returning to the United States and undergoing surgery.
Brutal injury: Ashley broke her leg in four places and sustained nerve damage last month, after tripping over a tree in the dark, while tracking bonobos, an endangered ape species (pictured in February, 2021)