Ashley Judd shares recovery update video of excruciating knee bending exercise that mad her sob

Ashley Judd gave an update on her recovery on social media that included a video clip of a knee  exercise that made her sob after an accident in February in Africa. 

The 53-year-old actress also showed her self in a short video working on her rehabilitation Saturday with her roughly 509,000 followers on Instagram.

She opened her caption with an inspirational post from Colette Werden that read: ‘It’s okay if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire.’

Ashley then wrote about her excruciating recovery as she explained the video clip that showed her bending her scarred knee.

‘I am getting back up. I remember when I began sleeping through the night. I remember when I began to have dreams again (both kinds). With the kind of injury I (& many others) have, we speak of degrees. In the video, 109 degrees was an outrageous dream, & trying to reach it was agony. I did 60 of those heel slides a day. I sobbed through them,’ she posted.

‘I made it because of the loving exhortation and validation of my many friends. Yesterday, I effortlessly reached the benchmark of 130 degrees. I can nearly reach my knee as you see in one picture. My feet can rest almost parallel. The knee is coming along, the four fractures healing,’ she added.

Ashley then told about her long-term prognosis.

‘The peroneal nerve injury will take at least a year I concentrate hard at moving my very still foot (and appreciate my sister’s medical-grade massages which remind my brain that I do have a right foot). Come June, I will walk with a brace and a cane,’ Ashley posted.

She added: ‘But look out, Patagonia, because when that nerve heals, you’ll be seeing me.’

Ashley also alluded to a significant other as her photos included a photo of herself holding up the Lonely Planet guide Trekking In The Patagonian Andes by Carolyn McCarthy and she posted: ‘My Partner gave me that book for my recent birthday.’

She included a photo of a bonobo among her snaps and wrote: ‘I believe. Just as that little endangered bonobo knows that she’ll be seeing me back in the Congolese rain forest soon.’

Ashley concluded her post with the Old Testament verse Psalm 84: 5-6: ‘Blessed are those whose strength is in you. Who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage. Passing through the valley of Weeping. They make it a place of springs’.

The actress and activist shattered her leg in February when she tripped over a tree while in a rainforest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.