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.”
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I am reading a book called JFK Vs Allen Dulles, concerns a lot of stuff that was going on in Indonesia in the late 1950’s and 1960’s. This plot plays into JFK’s assassination in 1963.
About a half dozen NSFW thought bubbles popped up over Matthew’s head when I saw that. None bear repeating here. LOL
How will I continue living knowing this?
Or read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Crime of the Congo.
http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/37712
If you want to understand the details of Belgian King Leopold’s genocide in Africa, this is a great place to start. One of the big totalitarian democides of the 20th Century.
Suck it up buttercup and nobody cares about you.
Both of them flew F-100 Super Sabers in the Air Guard in the early 60’s too.
I am not a big movie buff but I know I saw Ashley Judd in a number of movies way back when and found her very attractive. Still, as I sit here today, I could not name a single movie she appeared in. Anyway, nobody cares about the over-the-hill Ashley Judd.
Double Jeopardy may be one of her films.
A good argument for colonization.
“repeatedly reciting “the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” from Psalm 23.”
You mean she didn’t burst into flames when she said those Holy words?
She is a lying sack of crap.
Fell over a tree trying to study apes and then talks about the plight of the poor humans there. Even brags about being fed opiates.
Please.
Ashley doesn’t remotely resemble this now. She hit the wall hard and is extremely scary. I wouldn’t with beer goggles and a bottle of Viagra.
I think I've spotted the problem here...
The grand bitch of Lepiers Fork or the old name Hillsboro Tennessee home to celebs like Mr and Mrs Jessica Biel or Nicole and Keith
Congo thy may keep her please
Take our bitch please
Not a nice girl ....a nasty personality woman
Her mom and sister are ....quite nice honestly and liked by the community
Thoughts and prayers😇
I’m sure Dario Franchitti is better off without her.
Too funny. Too true.
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