Sarah Cornett-Ching knew within 48 hours of a vicious crash during an ARCA race in late September that she had suffered an inju

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Sarah Cornett-Ching knew within 48 hours of a vicious crash during an ARCA race in late September that she had suffered an injury unlike any she had experienced in her racing career.It was as though her brain were functioning in a slow stage less than 24 hours after the crash at Kentucky Speedway. She had a constant, aggravating, but not debilitating headache. Then she experienced ringing in her ears and severe nausea. By the second day, the 25-year-old driver couldnt get out of bed. She was tired, had a continuous headache and was nauseous.I felt like crap, Cornett-Ching said.It was then that NASCARs medical liaison reached out to the Denver, North Carolina, resident. Even though her injury occurred in an ARCA race, she competed in five NASCAR K&N Pro Series East events earlier this year. Because she is a NASCAR-licensed driver, it was protocol for the sanctioning bodys medical liaison to check on her.The liaison immediately arranged for Cornett-Ching to visit Dr. Jerry Petty, a Charlotte-based neurosurgeon who is affiliated with the International Council of Motorsports and is an independent neurological consultant for the NFL and NFL Players Association. Petty also treated Dale Earnhardt Jr., who missed most of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season after suffering a concussion in a race in June at Michigan International Speedway. He continued racing through the July 9 Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway (he finished 13th). Earnhardt has not raced since but hopes to be ready for 2017.It was the way Earnhardt handled his much-publicized injury -- by speaking out about it -- that made Cornett-Ching want to tell her story.The first visit when I went to see [Petty], I was pitiful, said Cornett-Ching, who was driven to her appointment by her team owner, Tony Blanchard. I couldnt hardly walk. I had to hold someones arm to get in there. I was so out of it that I dont even remember what was said.A CT scan showed no bleeding on her brain. After her reflexes and balance were checked, she was told to rest until the headache and nausea disappeared. She was told to stay off her cell phone unless it was a necessity and to not watch television. The bright light of the phone and TV only worsened the headaches, she said.The first three or four days, it was pretty easy to do because I felt so bad, the Summerland, British Columbia, native said. It got tougher when I started feeling better because Im pretty ambitious, and I want to get up and do things.That ambition carried Cornett-Ching to a seventh-place finish in last years ARCA point standings. This year, she recorded one top-10 finish in eight ARCA races and placed outside the top 20 only once -- in the Kentucky race that left her injured. She missed the season finale at Kansas, but Petty has told her shell be ready when the 2017 season begins at Daytona in February. Still, she cant finalize next years racing plans until shes cleared to drive.Three weeks after the accident, Cornett-Ching still wasnt allowed to drive a passenger car. Any type of stress or extensive physical activity triggered a headache and nausea. She also had problems with her short-term memory, and her brain wasnt processing things quickly.We went to Martinsville to watch a late model race [in October], and that was really tough on me, she said. We had to walk a long way and go up stairs to get to our seats. When I get my heart rate up and start doing things, I revert back to being nauseous, having headaches and being really dizzy. I really have no balance right now. If I try to walk a long way, I end up staggering. I trip on my feet a lot.[Petty] gets me to do things, like put my thumbs together in front of my face and shake my head back and forth. I cant even do it for three seconds, and I feel like Im going to throw up. Im still a long way from being able to do physical therapy.Still, she tries to be productive. Cornett-Ching, a certified welder, has taken on tasks at her teams race shop, including peeling vinyl off one of the cars. However, when she tried to take lug nuts off a car, watching the circular motion made her sick for two or three hours, she said.Dr. Petty wants me to feel 100 percent, and then he wants me to push myself until I feel sick again, Cornett-Ching said. He wants me to keep doing that until Im good all of the time. At that point, I can start testing a car again and getting pretty much back into everything.Cornett-Ching traveled to Las Vegas for the SEMA Show scheduled for Nov. 1-4, but she had to ride cross-country with four people who were taking a show car for display. She was advised not to fly because of the stress. The event schedule calls for her to attend a press conference for Dickies, her sponsor. She also plans to be at the Dickies booth, sign autographs and make public appearances.The main thing that has me feeling positive is its not permanent. Its temporary, and every day, I feel better than I did the day before, Cornett-Ching said. I would be more scared if I didnt feel like I was getting better.Cornett-Ching initially didnt want to talk about her condition because of the implications it could have for her career. Thats understandable, said former NASCAR driver Ricky Craven, now an ESPN analyst. The first driver to admit he needed some time out of a race car to recover from a concussion, Craven said there were some risks in admitting to being compromised.You work your whole life to make it to the big leagues, said Craven, who suffered three concussions in three weeks in the late 1990s while driving in NASCAR for Hendrick Motorsports. Nobody wants a race horse with a bad ankle. The very early approach in NASCAR was toughen up. Its evolved to Youve reached your limit. You cant have these side effects and race a car, but hundreds did.Every single athlete has to be their own advocate and say, I am in charge of this, much as what you have seen Dale Earnhardt Jr. do this year. Nobody knows how I feel. I can keep it a secret or I can act on it.It happened so often that it was acknowledged, but drivers just plowed through it and strapped in the next week. Before getting hurt really badly, I can remember being in a car when I shouldnt have because I spent two days cross-eyed after I hit ... my head on the steering wheel at Charlotte.Cornett-Ching didnt hit her head on anything. She slammed into the tracks inside wall nearly head-on at 140 mph after brushing the outside wall. She never lost consciousness, but she realized she didnt have a good grasp of where she was on the track once the car stopped.Initially, I didnt want to talk about it, she said. 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