Anton Kurtz 🦴

@amjuster How do you do?

A warm Twitter welcome to Anton Kurtz, aka @antonkurtz.

@countyhwy A prophetic vision of the coming High/First Turning. The Fourth Turning continues, however, and nobody yet can see the climactic, society-altering crisis that brings about its end. I’m afraid there is no road around the “great and perilous gate in history.”

What if we aren’t a nation in decline, but in fact far more powerful than we dare to imagine? What if the images of weakness, insane conspiracy theories and recycled political failures of the past century that we are being fed from both the left and the right represent the last-ditch efforts of our enemies to divide and control us, because they know that otherwise they’ve lost the handle? What if we could build a better future together over the next five years — using the unique strengths of our own culture, combined with new technologies that give us unrivaled power to deter our enemies, cure diseases, eat healthier food, and live freer, better and more interesting lives? Imagine what would happen if Americans focused on our strengths, and our enormous capacity for progress, instead of on personal selfishness, political hatreds and ideological insanity? It starts with respecting the rights and freedoms that make this country the most powerful engine of human progress that the world has ever seen. Or we can choose to be divided and miserable.

@BenSasse Thank you for sharing, Ben. God bless you and your family.

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses

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@ImKaitlynMeyers Regular slice. Black & white cookie.

Using food only, where are you from?

@_fastlanej Baby olecranon.

@GiblyMd @Davembmd I use fibrin glue in the resection (Weatherall & Price 2013), splint 1-2 weeks, then WBAT in boot and get moving. Works great. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23431536/

Hey #orthotwitter pedipods... What are your immobilization rules after calcaneonavicular coalition excision? Reply with details? I've been getting more liberal the more of them I do...

@Davembmd Angry buckle = Buckle w volar cortex disruption?

@traumaticum @Davembmd @aqueipot 🚨 Rule 1 Violation 🚨 Never put in something you can’t get out.

@aqueipot My genius moment of the evening

Do we need thicker nails for expanding them in periimplant fractures #orthotwitter?

@jointdocShields I literally returned 10 shirts that failed this way within a year. Sleeve rolling causes distal friction during flexion leading to posterior tension failure at the elbow. Non-iron shirts seem to be predisposed.

Clinic is going well

@JuncturaTheorum … applying straight splints, out past the fingers, with deep wrinkles, no padding, an excessively tight ace, and resembling no previously described method of immobilization.

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@Davembmd @Peds_Ortho @DrGrantHogue @CPOrthopedics I wish. Making templates is clearly one of the few high leverage, quadrant II, important/non-urgent efforts that can improve work life and decrease soul-draining documentation burnout. I just can never make myself spend my free time working on them… #orthotwitter #catch22