In the 1989 Branagh movie Henry V, there's a humorous interlude where Emma Thompson's Princess Katherine, who is French, is asking her attendant Alice (played by Geraldine McEwan) how to say certain body parts in English. Katherine learns hand, fingers, nails, elbow, etc., with very strange French pronunciation, but when she tries reciting the parts back to Alice, she mistakenly calls the elbow a bilbo.
Below are some shots of my normally beleaguered bilbo, basically just to show that, this time around, there was no major needle-bruising from the blood samples taken out of both of my arms. I had both arms done during my recent hospital visit (the second time was to check insulin resistance), and I had my right arm done again during my visit to the doc just a couple of days ago. Normally, the bruising I get forms within just a few hours, but this time, there's been almost nothing, so I salute (not literally, not physically) the professionals for their rare exactitude. I normally come away from these visits with tiny war wounds.
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| right arm after visit to local doc |
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| right arm's needle mark, exposed (hospital-visit needle mark not visible) |
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| left arm: no trace of anything after the hospital visit |
I hope you enjoyed this intimate look at my bilbo.
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