Published on September 12, 2024
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SUPPORTING HOPE. Art Aikin (NC State ’69) had raised and trained dogs for duck hunting for years when dog number five – his chocolate lab, Cooper – came along.
Cooper was a truly special dog, and when his health began failing, Art knew the college’s reputation and decided to take Cooper to #NCStateVetMed. Sadly, the news wasn’t good: Cooper had an inoperable brain tumor.
Read more about the extraordinary care the Aikins received and how it inspired them to further support the college using the link in our bio.
CAMPUS IN ✨ COSTUME ✨. There were frights and delights galore on #NCStateVetMed`s campus today with haunted hallways, witches, ghosts and ghouls! You might say that our community knows how to have a scary good time. Now, can you tell us...witch way to the treats? 🎃
#NATIONALCATDAY. In honor of the feline festivities, we`d like to share how #NCStateVetMed has advanced the cause of cat care since launching our new Feline Health Center last year. More than 600 people participated in our first Feline Symposium on managing feline pain. We`ve supported important research, including the low-dose radiation therapy that has transformed caring for cats with Feline Idiopathic Cystitis. And we`ve added a registered technician to our staff who is certified in feline-friendly care. When it comes to cats, #NCStateVetMed is committed. Read more at the link in our profile.
#felinehealth #catsofinstagram #vetmed
CONGRATS!👏 The @ncstatefair may be over, but we wanted to congratulate some of our #NCStateVetMed staff on their competition wins!
Olivia Stallings, director of Health and Wellness and Equine and Farm Animal Centers, won several awards for her chickens at the Open Poultry Show.
Brianne Corsi, Client Services Supervisor at the Terry Companion Animal Center, who is an avid baker, won Best of Show: Decorated Pie Crust.
PAWS-ITIVE NEWS! Pumpkin the beagle recently came to #NCStateVetMed from Virginia Beach after being diagnosed with a tumor (meningioma) in her lower spine. It was causing compression of her spinal cord, resulting in the inability to move her hind limbs. Pumpkin was treated with Stereotactic RadioSurgery, a noninvasive, one-time treatment to stop tumor growth and shrink it. Her prognosis is great, and she officially graduated from treatment. Congratulations, Pumpkin! 🎃
➡️ GROUNDBREAKING STUDY PART 2. ⬅️ On the Feline Idiopathic Cystitis front, #NCStateVetMed has given the protocol of its life-changing low-dose radiation therapy study to veterinary centers across the country, has begun an FIC clinic at the NC State Veterinary Hospital and is enrolling female cats in a new study. A study in male cats last year showed that the therapy vastly improves the hard-to-treat and painful condition. #FIC #FelineHealth #felineidiopathiccystitis
Read more at the link in our profile.
COLLABORATING ON THE COAST. Nine faculty members — including #NCStateVetMed`s Dr. Tal Ben-Horin — from different colleges across @ncstate are working together to address the growing concern of harmful algal blooms on the NC coast. The group, which also included #NCStateVetMed Ph.D. student Zakir Bulmer, seeks to understand, predict and reduce the risks that harmful algal blooms pose to the ecosystem and people of coastal NC. Read more about what they`re finding using the 🔗 in our bio.
DOMINO EFFECT: Dr. Jackie Jaloszynski and Sid Bragg visited #NCStateVetMed multiple times in 2018 and 2019 with their pups Winston and Lukus for issues including diabetes and a serious heart arrhythmia. Each and every visit, the couple was blown away by how thoughtfully NC State`s veterinarians cared for them and their pets.
“NC State does really well in teaching their students and residents that it’s a whole path; it’s a family, and you have to treat everybody together," Jaloszynski says.
When Winston and Lukus passed away, Jaloszynski and Bragg honored their legacy by creating three endowments at the College of Veterinary Medicine to uplift future generations of veterinarians. Jaloszynski says naming the school in their estate plans was the best way she and her husband could pay their gratitude forward.
"This is our legacy that we’re giving to the next generation in the hopes that they give to the next generation in a domino effect," she says. "For anybody who has any inkling at all of wanting this good work to continue, setting up an endowment makes perfect sense."
This National Estate Planning Awareness Week, read their family`s story and learn more about how to name The North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation in your personal legacy at the link in our bio.
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