My new book.

I'm reading a new book called Game Of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. The book is about the use of steroids in sports. One part of the book that really made me think was right in the beginning; they were talking about all these Olympic Athletes. I learned that on top of unhealthy amount of exercise (at least about 7) these athletes take incredible amounts of drugs and, legal and illegal. One such story was of female runner Marion Jones. Jones ingested about 35 things a day that helped her train. These included creatine monohydrate, vitamins A, C, E, D, B1, B2, B6, B12, omega- 3 fatty acids, dextrose, tyrosine, folic acid, and ZMA tablets. My first reaction after hearing all of these things was that it was incredibly unsafe. After that the book named a lot of the athletes that had healthy problems because of the all these drugs. I guess that this book has so far given me a peek at the darker side of Olympic sports.

finished with the book, last thoughts.

I have finished the book. Towards the end of the book you can see a lot of togetherness between the two families who's daughters were mixed up. I was really surprised because the two families seem to be friends now. They have spent a lot of time together between doing spots on the news, and writing this book. I think that it was sort of beautiful in a way to read about this bond that these two families share and the fact that they became so close because of a tragic accident and a case of mistaken identity. The end of the book reminded me of the book reminded me of the saying "It's always darkest before the light" because in the span of two months, both families had the experience of losing a loved one, but have grown as people and have recovered using each other.

Starting to really get into the story.

This week in the book I read about one of the families reactions when they got the call from the hospital about their daughter being alive. It was different than the reaction I would expect. For one, the other daughter that was living in the house was convinced that the call was a prank call and they should just go back to sleep; it's not like she does not care if her sister was alive, she just thought that this was some jerk that was playing a horrible joke on them. The daughter, Carly, would not let her mother even think that the news was real. While Carly thought the call was fake, the mother had mixed feelings. On one hand, nothing could make her happier than to have her daughter back, but at the same she does not want to fully believe that her daughter is actually alive because she does not want to go through the pain of losing her daughter again. I talked about this because it was completely not what I expected to do. I would expect them to immediately run to the car and speed to the hospital.