X-rays and Osgood Schlatter

So, I recently learned how to take an X-ray. It was a one day class, and pretty cool. After our lecture and demonstration we all paired up with a buddy, as usual, and began taking X-rays of one another. I took the first X-ray of my friend, Drew, who thought it would be really cool to have an X-ray of his skull to hang in his room. So, of course, I obliged and shot an X-ray of his huge noggin, and it is currently on the wall in his room in full view. I think he's planning on shooting his whole body while he in his surgery block. Funny guy. I, on the other hand, decided to take an X-ray of my knee. I have always had a large, funny bump on the anterior proximal portion of my tibia, right below the knee cap. It's been there since I played high school basketball, and it has always given me some minor, dull pain when I do a lot of running, jumping, rucking, or whatever to this day. I never had health insurance growing up, so if I wasn't dying I didn't see the doc much. Lately, while learning about orthopaedics, we came across a common finding for young althletic kids called osgood schlatter's disease. I hate the word disease because it makes it sound so bad, but really it's nothing. Anyway, when my instructor began showing some pics, with the signs and symptoms, and immediately I knew I had it. This leads us back to the recent X-ray. First off, my knee pokes out pretty far, and when Drew saw it he kind of freaked out, but continued with the X-ray to do some further investigating. Of course, once we saw my film there was no doubt. My particular malady actually is a full avulsion from the tibia rather than a partial as seen in this photo. What does this have to do with the price of oil in the Middle East? Not a thing.

All in all, it's been great learning how to do X-rays, now I just have to learn how to read them which, I'm afraid, is a whole 'nother deal.