Ruptured Achilles tendon will take time to heal

Dear Doctors: I'm a 30-year-old man, and I play weekend volleyball. Last month, I jumped to spike the ball and heard a 'pop.' There was a lot of pain; it felt like getting kicked in the calf.It was a torn Achilles tendon, and now I'm in a cast and on crutches. How else can this be treated?

CLINTON’S HISTORY 10, 20, 30 AND 50 YEARS AGO

30 YEARS AGOButler FFA chapter members Brandon Shepherd and Michael Brinkley, both students at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, had been nominated to receive the American FFA Degree at a convention in Kansas City, Mo.

TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY'S HISTORY:In 1979, President Jimmy Carter ordered a halt to oil imports from Iran due to an ongoing hostage crisis.TODAY'S QUOTE:'I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

It’s time for some humor in politics

Now that the mid-term elections are essentially over and the festive holidays are just around the corner, we thought it was a good time to put the divisive political hatred behind us and take some time to laugh about it instead.

Attempting to reclaim our nation’s civic respect

Among the most shameful events of the midterm election season this year has been the rumor-mongering and conspiracy-theorizing about what lurid things could have led to the attack on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s husband.

Can believers find political unity in the pews?

Just over half of churchgoing American Protestants went into the tense midterm elections believing that the people in the pews around them would vote the same way they did.

Antisemitism is on rise – condemn it

In his 1933 novel “The Oppermanns,” Lion Feuchtwanger did what all great writers do: He captured the specific to reveal the universal.The book represents a dual tragedy, fictional and real, for the author is eerily prescient in his depiction of a Jewish family in Germany.

TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY'S HISTORYIn 1775, the Continental Congress created the U.S. Marine Corps.In 1969, 'Sesame Street' premiered on PBS.In 1977, a human was conceived through in vitro fertilization for the first time.

DO JUST ONE THING

The proliferation of microplastics found in our water can be partially traced back to our washing machines. Certain types of clothing shed fibers that end up in our oceans and waterways, and even in our drinking water.

Best friend fails to keep my important secret

DEAR HARRIETTE: I recently won a large sum of money in a lawsuit. I told only the two people closest to me: my mother and my best friend. I expressed to both of them that I wanted to keep this news a secret to protect my safety and my money.