Health

Assuming you're healthy, your heart when working normally, acts sorta like a pump. Or rather, 2 pumps. You see, your right heart expands to draw in deoxygenated blood from the body, and contracts to pump it out to the lungs to become oxygenated. And at the same time, your left heart draws in oxygenated blood from the lungs and then pumps it out to the rest of your stupid misshapen body. Now sometimes, irregularities can occur that prevent your heart from pumping properly. Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), is an interesting one. Say, your heart loses some of Its contractile force due to high blood pressure, for example, this will result in the pooling of blood in your left heart, or left ventricle chamber, and in response to this, the cells in your left ventricle will enlarge to push against the higher circulatory resistance caused by the increase in blood pressure, which is a great solution, but only in the short term. Much like your parent's decision to try to save their marriage by having, well, you. But because of these enlarged cells, the left ventricle chamber then becomes much smaller. Resulting in less blood being able to fill into it, and because the blood coming into the left ventricle has nowhere to go, it begins to back up into the lungs and from there, because it's all a cycle, it'll back up into the right heart and then, you've got congestive heart failure on your hands. Not unlike, how the incessant, heated disagreements between your timeworn father and mother is also, on your hands. The name "Congestive" Heart Failure, though, Is apt because the fluid then leaks into your alveolar air spaces making it difficult to breathe, and with all this, blood pressure increases, yet again, and the original hypertrophy of muscle cells in your left ventricle is no longer a help, and since the contractile force of your heart has decreased, It certainly can't pump against the new, much higher resistance, and because of that, your body, in response to the heart not pumping sufficient blood thinks: "Well gee golly, Ha, I mustn't have enough fluid!" so it tells your kidneys then, to return and liquid you take in, meaning you'll retain a lot more water, which has to go somewhere, so it leeks into your legs, abdomen, and all over the body, and can result in the gaining of 2-3 pounds, per day! Which, as you can imagine, will cause rapid accumulation of total body weight, and after just one month, someone afflicted by this disease could amass up to 100 extra pounds! There is effectively no way that a human being could gain weight at this rate, by any other mechanism. And that is why it seems as though it is the only rational explanation as to what must be happening to your mom.

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