The Dyrud's Great Adventure

Hello everyone! For those who don't receive our e-mail updates we wanted to share that Rodney, Tammi and Jaycee will be heading to St. Paul, Minnesota on April 27th and 28th to meet with Jaycee's doctors. We will see the craniofacial plastic surgeon, the Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist and the orthodontist who has a clinic at the hospital. The surgeon wants to wait to perform surgery until sometime next year but he does want to see us in person at least once a year whether we do surgery or not. We are very blessed to have family and friends in the St. Paul area that we can stay with during these trips :-) Thank you for your prayers!            Rodney and Jaycee recently attended a Father/Daughter Ball at our church in Idaho :-)

Dear Prayer Partners~ Thank you so much for your prayers over Jaycee and her health situation. We spoke with the surgeon today regarding the results that came back from the Mayo Clinic; the doctors at Mayo Clinic have confirmed the diagnosis of an infiltrating lipomatosis. We are thankful that everyone is on the same page regarding Jaycee’s cheek and we feel confident moving forward with treatment options. The surgeon mentioned several things on the phone today. The first was that, after looking at the MRI from October, he and the rest of the team of doctors who care for Jaycee did not see a significant decrease or improvement after performing the second surgery in 2013. The second item he mentioned was that Jaycee will need reconstructive bone surgery down the road but at this point in time, she is too young and her bones are too small for that kind of an operation to provide any improvement. He also mentioned that he wants her adult teeth to be in before he performs any bon...