McKinsey Rodgers

Camas High School senior McKinsey Rodgers would not be golfing if it weren't for Shriner's Hospital. She might not even be walking.

A Shriner's patient since being diagnosed with a unicameral bone cyst, Rodgers is seizing an opportunity to give back to all the doctors and nurses benefiting her life and many other children in Clark County.

Rodgers is running a golf tournament for Shriner's on Saturday, March 13, at Camas Meadows, 4105 N.W Camas Meadows Drive. The four-person shotgun scramble starts at 9 a.m., and includes one round of golf, a golf cart, range balls and a barbecue afterwards. The entry fee is $400 per team, or $100 per player.

"I want to raise awareness for Shriner's and all the great things they do for kids, locally," Rodgers said. "Any money I can make from this is good. This is not just something I plan to do for a senior project. I would love to do more events like this to help Shriner's throughout my life. One day, I hope to work there and help kids going through the same thing I'm going through."

In second grade, Rodgers began limping. As pain persisted, parents Brad and Debbie took her to a specialist where a bone cyst was discovered in her left leg. The family applied for admission to Shriner's Hospital, and she was accepted.

Immediately, McKinsey had surgery to extract the cyst. The doctors drained the fluid and packed it with bone marrow, but she was not out of the rough.

"It never took," Debbie Rodgers said. "It just all dissolved."

Read the rest of the story in the March 2 issue of the Post-Record