Isabella Strahan, the daughter of Michael Strahan, is discussing the difficult rehabilitation process that she has been going through after undergoing the first round of chemotherapy for her brain tumor.
After undergoing emergency surgery in October to remove a massive medulloblastoma, which is a form of malignant tumor, from her cerebellum, the student and model, who is 19 years old, uploaded the eleventh edition of her YouTube series on Tuesday. In this series, she has been expressing her thoughts and experiences about her health journey.
Isabella disclosed in the video blog that she was admitted to the hospital after experiencing a fever, and she also said that she has remained there for a total of three days with no intention of leaving.
“All of a sudden, I’ve started experiencing a lot of fevers. I need you to come in if you have a temperature of 100.4 degrees,” she instructed.
Isabella had her first blood transfusion and an MRI of her eyes when she was in the hospital. She referred to herself as the “MRI queen” at this time.
The next step that she took before being permitted to go home was to have her chemotherapy port cleaned, which she described as being “really painful.” It was written over the footage that she said, “Get me out of here!”
In spite of this, Isabella needed to be readmitted to the hospital just a few hours later.
“I deceived everyone about it. As a result of the fact that I am experiencing a fever once again, we have returned to the hospital less than twelve hours after leaving there three or four days ago,” she said. “I had to come back in because I had a temperature of 102 degrees. Therefore, we are attempting to determine what the problem is, but no one is able to determine what the problem is.
“I believe that this is the most severe fever that I have ever had,” she stated. When I initially tried it, I felt terrible, but now I don’t feel as bad. I was simply suffering from a pretty horrible headache, so I didn’t give it much attention, and now we’re in the emergency room.
“I’m not in wonderful shape. It’s not that I’m in a terrible mood,” Isabella said. I’ve had worse, but I’m not in a good mood right now. I am so weak that I can hardly walk at this point. Before Isabella added, “It’s really declined,” her father’s girlfriend Kayla Quick pointed out that she was comfortably doing laps across the hospital two days before. Isabella then added, “It’s really declined.”
Following the conclusion of the video blog, the model revealed a peek of herself about to undergo an unanticipated surgical procedure to drain fluid from the back of her skull. According to Isabella, “I’ll be under anesthesia, but that’s not what I planned to do because I didn’t plan on coming back to the hospital.”
In the previous month, Michael Strahan disclosed the most recent setback that his daughter had experienced. After Isabella was readmitted to the hospital, the co-host of Good Morning America, who is 52 years old, said on television that she was “fighting through” her treatment.
“The last three days have been a little rough because she had a fever that kind of comes and goes,” stated the doctor. “I was required to take her to the hospital, and I had anticipated that she would return home a few hours later… It has been three days, but I am maintaining optimism that she will return home today.
Despite the fact that Isabella has been experiencing the side effects of chemotherapy, Strahan has said that his daughter has not encountered anything that their family has not “expected” to happen. He went on to say that despite the fact that he is seeing her go through these challenging times, he is doing as well as he possibly can.
“It is tough to see her go through it, but I know she’s a tough young lady and she’s going to make it through it,” he said at the point in time.
According to Strahan, the fact that Isabella has been documenting her experience in her YouTube series, which she launched in order to raise money for Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center, has proven to be informative.
“I think, for her, so many people have reached out and said, ‘I’m glad you’re doing this,’ ‘Thank you for doing this,’ ‘This has really helped us,’ and all that support that she is getting from people she doesn’t know, on top of people that she does know, has kept her in a very positive space,” according to him. “So thank you to everybody.”