Ashley Judd tries to stay optimistic while drowning in trauma after breaking leg in Congo

Ashley Judd has had a painful experience since breaking 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 is surrounded by the support of friends and family.

She remains optimistic while “ drowning in trauma ” from the painful experience and took to Instagram on Saturday with an update on how she is recovering for her 497,000 followers.

The 52-year-old actress began the legend with the Zen proverb: “ As I understand it, things are as they are. If I don’t understand, things are as they are.

She continued: ‘I don’t understand why what happened happened. I understand that I have been loved and helped tremendously. I understand that the nights are a savage agony.

Ashley thanked her doctors Phil Kregor and Todd A Rubin for “seven hours of intensive, brilliant and inspired surgery on my bones and nerves.”

She also showed her appreciation for the nurses, nutritionists and janitors who looked after her during her hospitalization.

The Double Jeopardy star wrote: ‘Now I am among a flood of friends and family, too many to mention, who have hugged me gently after this precipitous fall.

“ They do for me what I cannot do for myself – cooking meals, washing my hair, and they also offer the deep spiritual direction and consolation of trying to start creating an arc of meaning and goal. They also offer and respond to my need for tranquility. I am lost and they are the staff of my Shepherd.

“ To all of you who have come before me and walk by my side with physical therapy, I had no idea. Thank you. I am only at the beginning and the combination of drowning in trauma and treatment of the physical body is a lot. Yet you did, and so did I.

She posted the caption with a photo of herself and her cousin Rachel Sager under a beautiful mosaic piece titled Truthseeker, which Rachel created, inspired by Ashley.

Ashley also included a photo of her 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 for how to wash hair for someone who is lying in bed because she texted me, ‘Can you wash my hair?’ is where the work of a big sister lies.

Ashley broke her leg in four places and suffered nerve damage last month, after tripping over a tree in the dark while stalking bonobos, an endangered species of monkey.

The Divergent actress was rushed to a hospital in South Africa after a 55-hour rescue mission, before returning to the United States for surgery.