One Month After Crash, Sarah Ginter’s Recovery Pushes Forward

Even with some difficult days, Sarah Ginter continues to heal one month after being in a tragic car crash.

Ginter's family hopes she can recover at home in Batavia soon, according to a Facebook post. The post does not mention how soon the move might happen.

In the past week, Ginter has started to see visitors for short periods of time. Only a couple of her friends have been allowed to see her, and the trips have to be limited to 30 minutes. The family wants to make sure Ginter's brain is not overstimulated. 

"When she has friends here her brain has to work hard to keep up with everything and for her to process things," Ginter's mother Della wrote on Wednesday. "She is on a lot of medication to be able to do that. Noise bothers her and after the stimulation if it's too much she has a very difficult time afterwards."

The family is not trying to keep Ginter's friends away from her. Ginter's mother stressed on the Facebook page that it is in her daughter's best interest to have restricted visits while she continues to recover.

"I know they love her and I am so thankful for each and (every one) of her friends," she wrote in another post on Wednesday. "They are all wonderful. I guess I wish I feel I could explain it better to them."

Multiple posts on Sarah Ginter's Update Page on Facebook indicate that she is recovering from a brain injury as a result of being in a .

The crash happened in the evening in unincorporated Blackberry Township west of Batavia. Ginter, a passenger of the car, was left in critical condition. Her friend Lynlee Gilbert was the driver and did not survive.

Once Ginter is back home, she said last week that she .

Ginter's mother also revealed that medical staff spoke to her daughter about alternatives to smoking. She is hopeful that Ginter can quit easier since it has been over a month since she has had a cigarette. No one else in the family reportedly smokes.

"Smoking can very much slow down her brain process and make it take a very long time to get better," she wrote Wednesday. "She is also on heart medication for a fast heart rate from the accident and smoking would be bad for that and her lung which is still very bad."

When Ginter was , she was in critical condition. She had nine broken ribs, a collapsed lung, a lacerated spleen and brain swelling. Her condition was upgraded to good the week after the crash.

Ginter's recovery has taken her from Delnor Hospital in Geneva to Marionjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton. Her recovery has included prayer, medicine, therapists and more. To read our previous update on Ginter, click .

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