Ashley Judd is reflecting on her “beautiful restoration” after her extreme leg harm in February 2021.

On Saturday, the Double Jeopardy actress, 55, shared a number of pictures taken in Switzerland of her strolling the Alps and exploring some beautiful views — now two-and-a-half years after she shattered her leg within the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“Strolling. Switzerland. After 5 breaks in proper leg, a paralyzed foot, potential amputation, all whereas hemorrhaging, my leg and I’ve come far in 2.5 years since my accident in Democratic Republic of Congo,” Judd wrote to her followers.

“We got here far up these Alps, for the sheer pleasure of it, confidently. Ongoing gratitude of profound proportions to the Congolese who saved me, and the surgeons, neurologist, and bodily therapist who set me up for this beautiful restoration. How are you celebrating your blessings?”

Within the pictures included in her Instagram carousel, Judd confirmed off the intense blue sky, butterflies, climbing sticks, waterfalls and different picturesque views from her time within the open air.

Judd beforehand revealed that in February 2021, she broke her leg in a number of locations after tripping over a tree, and underwent an eight-hour surgical procedure in a South African hospital. She spent months in intensive bodily remedy.

On the time, Judd was visiting the African nation for analysis on the endangered ape species, the Bonobos.

“My leg won’t ever be the identical. She is a brand new leg. And I really like her. We’re buddies,” she wrote. “We now have a come a great distance and we’ve a superb life forward.”

On the 11-month anniversary of the autumn in 2022, she took on a 25-mile hike within the Appalachian Mountains, writing that her “coronary heart is open and keen.”

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Again in October, Judd informed UCLA professor Dr. Jonathan Flint in a lecture sequence that she additionally fractured the leg attributable to grief-associated clumsiness following her mom Naomi Judd’s suicide. She suffered the femoral condyle over the summer season in 2022, and “healed in two months, lickety-split.”

“It was what it was,” she mentioned on the time. “Clumsiness is related to grief, and there have been different folks in our household, after mother died, who fell down stairs and had accidents, and that is simply what mine occurred to appear to be. It actually allowed me to grieve. It actually allowed me to cease what I used to be engaged on at that second and to grieve.”

“The day that my beloved mom died by suicide, I had so many individuals to name,” she additionally shared of her mom’s dying. “There have been 5 girls who have been with me inside moments of my sharing that tragic information with them, and they’re my chosen sisters. I used to be simply reflecting in a single day. I had certainly one of my 2 a.m. wake-ups in a single day, and I used to be reflecting on these first days after her passing and the way there was all the time somebody with me at my home.”