The Morrisville and Preston Progress, Wednesday, July 31,1996 - 5
A hound, helpless kitten among vet’s memorable patients
ByRonPag0
The animal that has made the big
gest impression on veterinarian
Chad E. Aderhold was a Basset
bound he treated as a trainee out of
the University of Georgia
veterinary school.
"The animal was suffering from a
condition called Alpha-Dominate, a
behavioral disorder in which the
animal lakes on a role as leader of
the pack and tries to rule the roost,"
Aderhold says. "It was sitting on a
table in the examining room, and I
was gently patting and stroking its
head, when I happened to look
down, and its eyes met mine.
"The dog suddenly lunged at my
face, caught my nose in its teeth
and held tight. I literally had to pry
it loose with a jerk. It took 75
stitches to close the wound and
then plastic surgery. You can still
see the scar," he says.
Aderhold and R. Doug Meckes
opened the Cornerstone Veterinary
Hospital on High House Road, just
west of Davis Drive, four months
ago. The half-million-dollar facility
is one of the ouiparcels at the
Cornerstone Shopping Center and
caters to all types of animals, but
primarily dogs and cats.
While Aderhold has treated a
range of exotic animals, from
Bengal tigers to leopards and Afri
can lions, a tiny abandoned kitten
found by the side of Harrison Ave
nue in Cary is one he will always
remember. "You don’t forget some
thing that small and injured so bad
ly," be says.
He explains that a client had
found an orange-colored kitten
lying near the curb of the roadway,
next to another kitten which was
dead. "They were about 6 to 7
weeks old, and when she brought
the kitten to me it was having dif
ficulty breathing but was too frail
TREATING THE PATIENT-Dr. Chad Aderhold
checks on a Cocker Spaniel, groggy after minor
surgery to sew up a cut on his shoulder. Dr.
Aderhold recently opened an office at Corner
stone.
to determine whether the cause was
pneumonia or a traumatic injury to
the chest.”
The kitten continued to have dif
ficulty in breathing during the days
that followed, and when the clinic
was able to take X-rays, they dis
covered it had a diaphragmatic
hernia. "There was a huge hole in
the diaphragm and the stomach and
liver had been pushed up through
the cavity into the lung area," Ader
hold explains. "The more it ate, the
larger the stomach became." He
said they were able lo take care of
the problem and the kitten is fine
today, adding: "We named him
Squash."
Oddly, a three-year-old Blue Per
sian cat was brought in about the
same time with a similar physical
problem. It, too, was treated suc
cessfully.
While those procedures were, of
course, significant to him, Ader-
hold’s concern these days centers
greatly on the family dog and to
protect it against the life-
threatening disease called
heartworm.
He points out that the local pet
population has increased greatly in
the past few years with the rapid
growth in residential construction.
"Many families have pets that were
bom in other areas of the country,
Aderhold says. "A lot of our new
clients come from other stales and
in many, like California for in
stance, they may not have become
aware of the heartworm problem.
"It is not a problem for dogs
there, but it is in this area of the
country," he explains. "Mosquitoes
transmit heartworm disease by
biting an infected dog, then passing
the infection on to other dogs they
bite. Developing heariworms live
in the right side of the heart and do
damage to the vascular system.
They migrate to the dog’s heart and
can grow up to 14 inches as they
mahire."
Aderhold says if it is not
removed, the worm can cause
permanent heart and lung damage
and even death. "But you may not
see any signs before it’s too late,"
he says. "And once diagnosed, the
treatment for heartworm disease
can be dangerous and costly."
Veterinarian clinics abound
throughout the Triangle, but the
new Cornerstone hospital is the
only facility located in the Preston
and Morrisville area. It is an af
filiate of the Apex Veterinary Hos
pital. Veterinarian Glenn Br^shaw
is an associate at Cornerstone.
Aderhold feels that while
heartworm presents a major prob
lem which a pet’s owner must ad
dress, another is being assured the
pel can be identified if it strays
away or is losi w
"lliere was a time when pet iden
tification consisted of tags or even
tattoos," says Aderhold. "But tat
toos or ^in staining can bt
changed or eliminated. Today the
sure means of identification is to
insert a miaochip into the dog’s
back. It’s a simple procedure that
does not hurt the animal, and is
given like a vaccine, inserted by a
needle. When the dog is found, no
matter where it might be, a scanner
will retrieve the identifying number
which will have been recorded on a
national register by the AKC at the
time it was inserted."
While dogs and cats dominate
Cornerstone’s list of clients, an oc
casional potbelly pig is cared for.
Aderhold says the pigs are in
telligent, make good pets, can be
litter trained and grow to about 50
pounds. And, adds Aderhold, the
pigs are far tam^ than the feisty
Basset hound that bit a young vet’s
nose.
It Won't loose Its Cool
WRh The Uqu'idCoiri Engine
Local woman pressing ahead with drive
for new senior center in western Wake
Elaine Stoops is 71 years old but
she isn’t one to sit at home when
there is work lo be done. That’s
why you won’t find her there much
these days. She’s organizing a
campaign to raise some $2.3 mil
lion to build a dream she and a
group of friends cherish - a West
ern Wake Senior Center - or what
she calls a haven for residents 55
and over.
"We’ll probably kick off the
campaign for funds by the middle
of September,” she says, "but
we’ve got a checkhst of things to
do before th^.” With color render
ings under arm and carrying a
checklist of plans and profKisals,
Sloops has been visiting officials in
Cary, Morrisville and Apex over
the past few months, and will soon
go to Holly Springs in an effort to
explain the project she and her
group have in mind.
Stoops and her committee hope to
build a 20,0(X)-square-foot complex
on High House Road at an eight-
acre site that has been lease4 to the
Western Wake Senior Center for 35
years by the Town of Cary. The
property is located next to Bond
Park where Stoops says the
campaign kickoff will probably
take place.
Her immediate plan is to get
leactership for the drive. She said
Joe Gaytoun of Cary has been the
honorary fund-raiser for the group,
but that a permanent leader is being
sought.
"Our brochure's at the printer,
and it’s been designed to include a
pledge card that can be mailed back
to the committee," she explains. "It
contains information on the pro
posed center and an architect’s
drawing of the building.
"We’re also finishing a slide
presentation which should be ready
by the middle of August and a stu
dent at North Carolina State Uni
versity is helping prepare a special
video which will show how the
rooms are to be laid out. We’ve
used an existing building in San
ford with a similar layout as we
propose and the video will show a
walk-through and explanation of
how the rooms will be used.
"This will give us two different
presentations rather than just talk
ing to an audience," she says.
Stoops says by the time the
campaign starts, the group hopes to
have named the 19 permanent
board members who will direct
construction and operation of the
facility which they hope will be
ccanpleted by 2005. It is to be fur
nished as a residence to give a feel
ing of a home and not an institu
tion, she explains.
The idea of such a center began
in the mid-1980s when eight senior
citizens started the committee.
Since then the group has traveled to
similar centers across the country
to determine the type of center that
would best fit this area of North
Carolina.
"We know we have a big job
ahead, but we are determined to
realize our dream," Stoops says.
The center, she says, will provide
fellowship for the thousands of
seniors who live in this area, as
well as friendship, health and well
ness programs, and social, recrea
tional, cultural, educational and
other activities and services.
To date. Wake County has
donated $50,000, and the N.C.
General Assembly gave $100,000
in 1994, which the group used to
hire Hale Architecture and the Cap
ital Consortium fund-raising firm.
Some $3,000 has also been raised
selling raffle tickets and note cards
with pictures of the proposed cen
ter. Appeals will also Ite made to
corporate sponsors, and bake sales,
dinners and shows will follow.
The contract with Cary for the
land on High House Road requires
that 75 percent of the building’s to
tal cost must be raised by 2001.
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