A Great Day To Believe In Amazing Endings

I wanted to take a moment to post about the boys soccer team that’s been trapped in a cave in Thailand.

 

After 17 days trapped in a dark and damp cave, the operation to rescue the boys and their coach is complete.  All 12 boys and their coach are out!  

 

The boys vanished on June 23 with their 25-year-old coach after seasonal rains flooded the caverns and narrow passages, blocking their exit from the popular tourist destination. Nine days later, two expert cave divers found the trapped group.

 

As Janis Mackey Frayer of NBC News put it, it’s “a great day to believe in amazing endings.”

 

For this soccer team, things are not quite over yet. They’re still hospitalized as their health status is confirmed. Part of their ordeal in the cave involved malnourishment and reduced body temperatures so they will have some recovering to do.  X-rays revealed that two of the boys had suspected lung infections, but doctors were awaiting lab tests,  

 

The boys are described as "homesick” but they are “very happy” to be in the hospital and out of the cave. 

 

If all goes well, the team could be released from the hospital within the next week.

 

This experience has been an astonishing tale of perseverance and strength in the face of adversity, both from the trapped soccer team and from those amazing, dedicated individuals who gave so much to find and save those boys and their coach.

 

It’s a good reminder that even in the face of terrible odds, good things can happen.  

 

It is, indeed, “a great day to believe in amazing endings.”