Fiona!

Wednesday
A good and bad day today. Yesterday evening I decided I was still concerned about two of my fingers from my fall on Friday afternoon, so I went to an Urgent Care office in the evening. The P.A. examined my hand and felt that the fingers weren’t broken - she thought I would be experiencing more pain if they were - but she taped the two suspect fingers and referred me to another nearby branch where they have X-ray facilities. Laura wasn’t working today, and it was supposed to be a nice day so we had decided to go to the zoo. On our way down there, I got a call from the office to say much to her surprise the two fingers were broken! Since they are taped together there was nothing else to be done till I see a hand specialist next week, and they’re not painful, which is kind of weird, but good (!), so we continued with our day. I decided to put Fiona the hippo in the Spotlight today, since she has become quite an internet celebrity over the last four years, and she put on quite a show for us today! Fiona was born at the Cincinnati Zoo on January 24, 2017. Fiona's parents were Henry and Bibi - Henry unfortunately died later in the same year at the age of 36. She is the first Nile hippo to be born at the Cincinnati Zoo in 75 years, and the first of the species to be scanned in the womb using ultrasound. She was born six weeks premature, with a birth weight of 29 pounds ( the recorded range of birth weights for the species at that time was 55–120 pounds. She was unable to stand, and required bottle feeding with milk from her mother, supplemented with infant formula. This was the first time a hippopotamus had been milked and the milk analyzed. The following month, while teething, she began refusing her bottle and became dehydrated; a catheter for the delivery of intravenous fluids was inserted with the assistance of members of the vascular access team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Now, at four years of age, she weighs over 300 lbs, which is in the normal range for a hippopotamus of her age. Due to the close contact she had with staff in her early months, she has turned into quite a “ham” and loves to swim along the observation window, seemingly relating with the onlookers! On our way back home, we stopped for some Mexican food at one of Laura’s favorite Mexican places, recommended to her by some of her local friends.
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