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I Press My Finger Into My Ankle And The Dent Stays.
You probably already know if you do it too. You press a finger into your ankle or the front of your shin and you hold it for a second and you let go. And the dent stays. A little crater in your own skin that takes too long to fill back in. And you sit there looking at it because some part of you needs the proof. Needs to confirm that you are not imagining the heaviness. That there is something physically there. There is something physically there. I did that test to myself for two years before anyone gave me a real explanation for what it meant. I had asked. Believe me I had asked. I was told it was probably nothing. Told to drink more water. Told to elevate my legs and cut the salt and lose a little weight and come back if it got worse. I did all of it. The dent still stayed. And after enough appointments where nothing I said seemed to qualify as a real problem, I stopped bringing it up and started quietly wondering if I was the kind of person who makes too much of nothing. I was not making too much of nothing. The dent that stays has a name. It happens when fluid that is supposed to be draining out of your tissue is sitting in it instead. And the reason it is sitting there is that the system responsible for moving it has slowed down. Your body has a drainage network running through your legs and your belly and your neck and your face. Its entire job is to collect the fluid that leaks out of your bloodstream into your tissue and move it back out of your body. It is not your blood. It is a separate system running alongside it. And here is the part nobody told me. It has no pump. Your heart drives your blood without you thinking about it. This system has nothing driving it automatically. It moves on motion and on the right kind of internal support. When it slows down, the fluid has nowhere to go. It pools. In your ankles. In your face. In the places you press your finger into at night to confirm you are not crazy. That is why the wa
