Osgood Schlatter

in which I ask who decides what happens to us, and don't get an answer.

I had all sorts of trouble with my knees as a kid. In addition to being a chubby chubster, I grew pretty fast as a tween. Apparently, this combo can cause an orthopedic abnormality named Osgood Schlatter’s disease. By the eighth grade, my orthopedist thought I needed to wear braces on both my knees. What I recall of Osgood and his Schlatter was that it …