Day 12
"Demonstrate love by willingly choosing to give in to an area of disagreement between you and your spouse. Tell them you are putting their prefernce first."
So today, I realized how hard it can be to give in when I disagree with something Logan wants. In this particular case, he wanted my input in regards to buying a Hooka. Now let me give a little history on why I didn't feel it necessary to purchase one. I grew up with a father who was very sick for the longest time. It was hard for him to attend anything in high school due to this sickness. He was diagnosed with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. This is a genetic disorder that has caused him pain and suffeering and ultimately the disease Emphysema (chronic lung disease). Six years ago in April marks the anniversary of my fathers Bi-lateral Lung transplant. That day changed our lives forever. I thought I would lose my father to his deficiency and disease but instead was given a second chance at life. I cherish every minute I have with him because with his case, he still has the deficiency and although he had his transplant, it doesn't change things. This transplant simply gave him more time. On average, a lung recipient is given 12 years to live. What does this mean, it means I won't give up hope and pray that my dad beats those odds. For that, I refused to give in to Logan today. What's confusing to me is that Logan hates smokers and claims that Hooka is much healthier than smoking a cigarette but the truth is this, it's still a risk and one that I will not take.
I failed today but in this instance and know that I made the right decision. Better luck tomorrow =)
Dare of the Day...completed (I tried)
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From the Mayo Clinic Web Site
Question
Hookah smoking: Is it safer than cigarettes?Is hookah smoking safer than cigarettes? I've been told that the water used in the hookah makes the tobacco less toxic.
Answer
from Edward C. Rosenow III, M.D.
It's a myth that hookah smoking is safer than smoking cigarettes. The tobacco is no less toxic. Hookah smokers actually inhale more tobacco smoke than do cigarette smokers because of the massive volume of smoke they inhale.
Hookah — also called narghile, shisha and goza — is a water pipe. The device has been used for centuries in the Middle East and Asia to smoke tobacco. Now, hookah bars and cafes are popping up across the United States — fueled by the growing popularity of hookah smoking among teens and young adults.
The hookah device consists of four parts:
A base, or smoke chamber, which is partially filled with water
A bowl, which contains tobacco and the heating source
A pipe that connects the bowl to the base and dips into the water in the base
A hose, a second tube in the pipe that does not dip into the water but opens into air in the base and allows users to inhale the hookah smoke
When a smoker inhales through the tube, a pressure difference forces air past the heating source and heats the tobacco, which gives off smoke. The smoke is pulled away from the tobacco and passes through the water and into the smoke chamber — from which it is inhaled by the smoker.
Although many believe that the water in the hookah filters out all the "bad stuff" in the tobacco smoke, this isn't true. According to a World Health Organization advisory, a typical one-hour session of hookah smoking exposes the user to 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette. Even after passing through water, tobacco smoke still contains high levels of toxic compounds, including carbon monoxide, heavy metals and cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens). Hookah smoking also delivers significant levels of nicotine — the addictive substance in tobacco.
The trend of hookah smoking has doctors and public health experts concerned because — despite claims to the contrary by many users — smoking from a hookah is just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes.
i think it's okay to stand your ground, especially when it has to do with HEALTH!!! =) love you, and i think you completed your dare of the day. =)
i stand behind you 150% on this one. i would feel the same way.
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