And I remembered my 13-year-old son, but I remembered him being 8. “I remembered my husband, Jonathan, but as this guy I was dating. “I didn’t remember the previous five years of my life,” she says. Judd made a miraculous recovery and delivered a healthy boy, but she had hearing loss and memory loss. I promised God, ‘If I live, I’ll be the most selfless person.’ Plot twist: I lived.” I volunteered at church and school, but it was really for me. I felt like, what did I do with my life? How did I give back to this world? I was working with celebrities. “And in that moment, I just felt like the most selfish person in the world. “When I started having organ failure, it really hit me that I was about to die,” she says. She also couldn’t be fully sedated while her lungs and ears were painfully drained. Because she was pregnant, there were only certain antibiotics she could take, and they didn’t seem to be working. She had developed severe pneumonia and had to return to the hospital. Three days in, she felt an intense pain in her ribs. I had an extreme feeling of guilt.”īy Christmas, her health had seemingly improved, and she was allowed to go home for a week to be with her family for the holidays. But they couldn’t operate because of the sepsis. ![]() They were telling me that he might not make it. Things were further complicated because of her pregnancy. The bacterial meningitis led to sepsis and kept her in the hospital for two months. I was in denial that I was actually that sick. “As it was, they told me I had a one-in-10 chance of dying. “If I had gone home that night, I would have been dead,” Judd says. He said he didn’t feel right discharging her and wanted to run a lumbar puncture, the results of which showed she had bacterial meningitis. She ended up in the emergency room at Mission Hospital and was nearly discharged until a new doctor came on shift. One fall day, she woke up with the worst headache of her life as well as a nosebleed and a stiff neck. “I decorated homes for celebrity clients like Tarek El Moussa and other HGTV stars,” she says.īut it all changed six years ago when Judd was pregnant with her third child. She owned a fashion and home design company. In her former life, Judd was a classical pianist. But what began as a forever home for animals needing a second chance at life quickly evolved into something much bigger. But he’s a big softie.”Įach one of the animals here was rescued-more than 70 in all since Judd founded Farmhouse Rescue in 2018. Patches is not the brightest cow,” Judd says, “He has some brain damage from a lack of oxygen at birth. But the smile never leaves her face.Īnimals poke their heads out of enclosures and over fences as she passes by-dogs, cats, chickens, turkeys, pigs, horses, goats, donkeys, ponies, sheep, ducks, a peacock, and a lone steer, Mr. ![]() “It’s a mess right now,” she says, shaking her head. Davis.Īfter recovering from a life-threatening illness, Danielle Judd founded Farmhouse Rescue in Trabuco Canyon, an organization dedicated to rescuing animals and allowing them to help people who are going through tough times.ĭanielle Judd treks across her 28-acre ranch in Trabuco Canyon after a recent rain. ![]() Danielle Judd (left) and Helen Blick (right).
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