Michael Strahan’s daughter Isabella Strahan shares the emotional moment she finished radiation after being diagnosed with a brain tumor at the base of her skull.
“I’m so excited to finally be done,” the 19-year-old student and model said in the third installment of her YouTube series, where she shares her health journey following emergency surgery last October to remove a large medulloblastoma — a type of malignant tumor — in her cerebellum. .
“It’s been a long six weeks and I’m very happy that I’m finally on the mend after all of this because the side effects and everything else hits,” she admitted.
Isabella documented her last day of radiation at New York’s Proton Center in a video. Staff members and her family cheered her on with congratulatory signs after she finished her treatment.
Isabella was in tears as she hugged her father and twin sister Sophia before happily ringing the bell. “I’m so excited to ring the bell… I never thought I’d ring the bell,” she said.
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Isabella ended the vlog by saying that after finishing the radiation, she was preparing for her first interview with Good morning Americawhich aired last week.
During GMA segment, the student talked about finding out about her condition in late October 2023 and undergoing emergency surgery at Cedars-Sinai to remove a brain tumor on Oct. 27, the day before her 19th birthday.
“I feel good. Not too bad,” said Isabella, who will begin chemotherapy next month at Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center in Durham, North Carolina. “That’s my next step. I’m ready for it to start and I’m one day closer to the end. … I’m very excited for this whole process to be over. But you just have to keep living every day, I think through the whole thing.”
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Sophia Strahan, Michael Strahan and Isabella Strahan.
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In her first vlog, Isabella said her health battle was challenging and she didn’t feel like herself after the treatment, but her perspective ultimately changed after the experience.
“I just had a Sephora ad that I shot in May of 2023 come out. So it’s super exciting, but I remember being so excited to go to the store and take a selfie with him, and I can’t do that now because no I really don’t I feel like me or that person in the ad,” she admitted.
“These last two months have been difficult,” she continued. “It was challenging and very difficult, but I know I will endure it. I know that time will heal and things will go back to the way they were – I can’t say it’s normal because there’s no normal in my life now, but things will go back to calmer.”
As she continues to recover, Isabella thanked her loved ones for their support and kindness, talking about how she learned that the “little things” don’t really matter in life.
“I just hope that everyone who sees this knows that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that things will get better because every day is another day closer to being better and closer to feeling better,” she said. “Progress takes a lot of time… try to see the positives.”
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