When she was reasonably attractive.
She was absolutely gorgeous.
Posted on 02/12/2021 5:46:24 PM PST by EdnaMode
Actress, author and humanitarian Ashley Judd is recuperating at a South African trauma unit after almost losing a leg in a “catastrophic” fall in a Congo rainforest.
In an Instagram Live chat with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof – watch it below – Judd, speaking from her ICU bed, says she was walking in a Congo rainforest when she tripped over a fallen tree, shattering her leg. Judd, a frequent visitor to Congo, was doing work to track the Bonobos, an endangered great apes species.
Describing “an incredibly harrowing 55 hours” during which she was transported, in part by being hand-carried out, in part on a six-hour motorbike trip, from the remote rainforest location to a medical center in South Africa, Judd holds up the stick that she was biting to distract from the pain, “howling like a wild animal.” The actress, sister of Wynona Judd and daughter of Naomi Judd, recalls fading in and out of consciousness as she went into shock, repeatedly reciting “the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” from Psalm 23.
Judd tells Kristof that despite the pain – “at the very edge of my edge” – and fear, she was fully aware of her “privilege” in having the opportunity to transfer to a fully equipped medical facility. Most Congolese people, she says, would have remained in the village, lost the leg and maybe a their life.
“The difference between a Congolese person and me is disaster insurance that allowed me 55 hours after my accident to get to an operating table in South Africa,” she says, adding that Congo villages lack not only electricity but “a simple pill to kill the pain when you’ve shattered a leg in four places and have nerve damage.”
Judd further explained on her own Instagram page, writing that she decided to speak out about the accident to spread the word about “what it means to be Congolese in extreme poverty with no access to health care, any medication for pain, any type of service, or choices.”
She continues, “Please join us and learn what it is like for much of the world – and how you can help. Bonobos matter. And so do the people in whose ancestral forest they range and the other 25,600,000 Congolese in need of humanitarian assistance.”
The only logical explanation of Judd squatting like that on a tractor is because McConaughey ask her to urinate down his back.
She tripped, and broke her leg in four places.
How do you do that?
"...when she tripped over a fallen tree, shattering her leg..."
"Fap...fap...fap...fap..."
Bonemaker
When she was reasonably attractive.
She was absolutely gorgeous.
That’s awesome.
“Alright, alright, alright...”
And her UK Wildcats suck too.
Now ain’t that too bad...NOT!! 😂😂
Amazing how she was completely unaware that her whole story about how the bushmen dragged her sorry ass out of the forest; and how she had to stay in a 'hut' for a night before getting somewhere she could be evac'd completely slipped her mind, which by the sound of it was lodged halfway up her ass after slipping off a damn log. SCHADENFREUDE
Her inner demons always detracted from her beauty...kinda like the lady I dated that could have been her twin...and later got a Masters in Journalism summa cum laude.
“She seems to be completely unaware why a country blessed with such rich natural resources still lives in such poverty. Corruption, civil war and socialism can tear a country apart.”
Having an average IQ of 63.
They were both in their 70’s at the time. One has since passed but the other still runs cattle.
Correct, except your order is reversed.
Years ago I was reading numerous articles trying to figure out why Sierra Leone was/is so poor.
A long civil war (no rule of law).
Once they finally did get an elected President, he was having a difficult time finding anybody with an education to put into the various offices. The schools had all been closed for the last 15(?) years due to the war.
And the lack of education also goes for trying to start/run companies.
He said they passed new laws so that mining companies working on government land had to pay the government a certain percentage. But, the local mayors or bureaucrats will take a direct cut from the miners, and then under-report their hauls from the mines.
“Actress, author and humanitarian Ashley Judd is recuperating at a South African trauma unit after almost losing a leg in a “catastrophic” fall in a Congo rainforest. “
Note that South Africa was the only white-ruled country in Africa and it is thousands of miles from The Congo. In South Africa they built real hospitals and had (and still have) health care at Western Standards.
There are 53 other countries in Africa.
Lots here won’t admit that.
They sound tough.
Who?
Something or somebody must have fallen on her leg.
I hope the pain prompts an oxy addiction.
Truly.
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