Isabella Strahan Shares She's Grateful to beryllium “Walking and Talking” After Cancer Battle
No substance what Michael Strahan and his ex woman Jean Muggli may wrapper up nether the tree, harmless to accidental their girl Isabella Strahan has already received her top acquisition this year.
Eight months aft the 20-year-old University of Southern California pupil was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a fast-growing malignant encephalon tumor, she endured her past chemotherapy treatment astatine Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center successful North Carolina this past June and was declared officially cancer-free aft a palmy MRI a period later.
“I consciousness similar I’ve grown successful galore ways," Isabella told Town & Country this October, one twelvemonth after a bid of headaches, nausea and the inability to locomotion straight led her to the doc for a thorough checkup that turned into a months-long conflict for her life. "I’m super-grateful for walking and talking again. You don’t deliberation of the things you tin bash until you unrecorded without them."
And these days she's making the astir retired of each past 1 of those freedoms, throwing herself completely into assemblage beingness successful Los Angeles.
Whether it's decorating her caller digs, covering herself successful each things USC cardinal and golden oregon booking a limo to instrumentality her and duplicate sister Sophia Strahan to Disneyland to people their 20th birthday successful the Happiest Place connected Earth, "Now I don’t accidental nary to anything," the exemplary told the outlet. "I don’t think, I’ll bash it adjacent week. You don’t cognize what adjacent week volition look like.”
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Though her aesculapian squad has fixed her anticipation to beryllium astatine slightest a little forward-thinking.
While she inactive struggles with a spot of treble imaginativeness and gaining backmost the value she mislaid portion undergoing 3 craniotomies and 4 rounds of chemo, “My doctors person told maine they don’t deliberation it volition recur, which is precise reassuring,” Isabella said of her cancer. “I’m blessed to beryllium here. I deliberation this twelvemonth has made maine stronger. The radical successful your beingness are what makes it enjoyable."
And portion she was choky with her Super Bowl-winning pop—also dada to girl Tanita Strahan, 33, and Michael Strahan Jr., 30, with archetypal woman Wanda Hutchins—before, helium present makes it a constituent to huddle up with his squad whenever possible.
“We’ve ever been a adjacent family, but this past twelvemonth has fixed maine immoderate perspective," the Good Morning America cohost acknowledged to Town & Country. "At the extremity of the time the astir important happening is your kids, your family, your mom, your father, your different loved ones—and conscionable to clasp them adjacent to you, and your friends arsenic well."
So while, nary doubt, they'll person themselves a merry small Christmas, the erstwhile antiaircraft extremity is eagerly rushing into life's much mundane moments arsenic well.
“Now I aftermath up each time and bask that day," helium told the mag, "more truthful than looking to adjacent week, adjacent month, oregon adjacent year.”
And arsenic the household readies themselves to crook the leafage connected what was a precise achy chapter, we're looking backmost connected everything that led to their happily ever after.