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Sarah Ginter Reportedly Home With Family

The Batavia 18-year-old's recovery continues to inspire and touch the lives of others.

An 18-year-old Batavia girl is now healing from a car crash in familiar surroundings.

Sarah Ginter is reportedly recovering at home after receiving care at two different hospitals over the past month. Recent references on Sarah Ginter's Update Page indicate that she is no longer in a hospital.

Last week Ginter's mother Della had said the family was talking about her leaving hospital care. Then on June 18, a post on the update page included a lyric to the Diddy-Dirty Money song "Coming Home":

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‎"I'm coming home, coming home, tell the world that I'm coming home."

Several people wrote on the page to congratulate Ginter on her homecoming, including Janet and Jeff Gilbert. The Gilberts lost their daughter, Lynlee Gilbert, in the same crash that injured Ginter. When Ginter was in the hospital, she talked about doing something to remember Gilbert, according to an update on the Facebook page.

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Almost 1,000 people are "fans" of the update page, meaning they have clicked the "Like" button on the page and see posts from the page on their own personal Facebook pages.

Recent posts on the page has included a man who was told he would never walk again but now rides a motorcycle and hunts.

Another post is from a woman who cared for Ginter at times while she was in the intensive care unit at Delnor Hospital in Geneva. The woman was involved in her own car crash on May 29.

"...Everytime I get frustrated with what I can't do at this point and how it has affected me ... I think about Sarah's strength to pull through (as the rest of your family has stayed strong)," she wrote. "You all inspire me to push through."

Ginter received care at Delnor Hospital from after the May 16 car crash up to the first week of June. That's when she was moved to , according to posts on the update page.

To read our previous update on Ginter, click .


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