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Isabella Strahan Shares She's Grateful to beryllium “Walking and Talking” After Cancer Battle
Michael Strahan is gladsome to beryllium successful the end-zone present that his girl Isabella Strahan is cancer-free.
But portion the NFL Hall of Famer’s girl underwent aggregate rounds of surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation implicit the past twelvemonth for medulloblastoma—a malignant encephalon tumor—Michael admitted helium was frightened that she mightiness die.
“As a genitor you perceive that your kid has crab and you go, ‘Whoa,’” Michael told Town & Country successful an interrogation published Oct. 29. “You person to power your thoughts, due to the fact that your encephalon thinks of the worst lawsuit script and past you enactment your mode backmost from there.”
He noted, “I don’t deliberation I’ll spell done the remainder of my beingness without immoderate interest successful immoderate signifier oregon signifier astir this.”
The Good Morning America anchor—who shares Isabella and her duplicate sister, Sophia, some 20, with ex Jean Muggli, arsenic good arsenic children Tanita, 32, and Michael Jr., 31, with ex-wife Wanda Hutchins—also described however hard it was to witnesser Isabella spell done treatment.
“It’s been a brainsick year,” Michael continued. “I deliberation successful the agelong tally we’ll fig retired a mode to payment from it. The process was a batch scarier than we imagined—seeing her travel retired of surgery, and each the things she had to larn however to bash again. You conscionable commune that everything gets backmost to normal.”
He added, “There were times erstwhile we said, ‘We cognize it’s achy and tough, but it’s temporary.’”
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As for however Isabella—who precocious re-started her freshman year astatine the University of Southern California—is feeling present that she is 3 months cancer-free? She shared she inactive has treble vision, trouble gaining value and her “balance is each implicit the place,” but that’s advancement from wherever she utilized to be.
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“I consciousness similar I’ve grown successful galore ways,” Isabella told the outlet. “I’m super-grateful for walking and talking again. You don’t deliberation of the things you tin bash until you unrecorded without them.”
But her dada made definite to look connected the agleam broadside of her growth.
“The imaginativeness and equilibrium worldly dependable similar me,” Michael said. “Yours is going to travel back. I’m getting old. Just hold till you get to the constituent successful your beingness wherever you’re like, ‘God, I don’t privation to summation immoderate much weight.’”
For much of Isabella’s travel to becoming cancer-free, support reading…
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Brain Cancer Diagnosis
Isabella Strahan—the girl of erstwhile mates Michael Strahan and Jean Muggli—said she "didn't announcement thing was off" astir her wellness until aboriginal October 2023, erstwhile she started experiencing headaches and nausea.
After throwing up humor 1 day, she got a afloat checkup and MRI scan astatine the urging of her dad. The results showed medulloblastoma, a malignant encephalon tumor recovered successful children.
Later that month, she underwent encephalon country to region the mass.
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Family Support
Isabella went nationalist with her diagnosis successful a January 2024 interrogation with her dada and ABC News' Robin Roberts.
"I virtually deliberation that successful a batch of ways, I'm the luckiest antheral successful the satellite due to the fact that I've got an astonishing daughter," Michael noted astatine the time. "I cognize she's going done it, but I cognize that we're ne'er fixed much than we tin grip and that she is going to crush this."
Isabella's duplicate sister Sophia Strahan besides offered her support. "I'm truthful fortunate to person the astir astonishing sister and champion person successful the world," she wrote connected Instagram. "The past fewer months person been truthful overmuch harder than we could person ever imagined, but it's made maine recognize conscionable however beardown you are"
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Radiation Therapy
Following her interview, Isabella shared she had finished her circular of radiation therapy.
"I'm precise excited to yet beryllium done," she said successful a Jan. 16 YouTube video. "It's been a agelong six weeks and I'm precise blessed to yet heal my caput aft each of this due to the fact that the broadside effects and everything get to you."
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First Chemotherapy Round
Following radiation therapy, Isabella began undergoing chemotherapy to dainty her cancer.
"My full rima feels similar I got 1 elephantine basal canal," she shared successful a Feb. 16 vlog. "Every azygous tooth, conscionable ripped retired and not adjacent surgically enactment backmost in. My jaw hurts, the bottommost of my lingua hurts. It hurts erstwhile I gulp water."
Still, the teen kept her spirits up, joking successful a video posted a week aboriginal that her hairsbreadth is "insufficient now."
"Besides being bald," she said, "it doesn't bring maine symptom mentally."
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Emergency Skull Surgery
Though Isabella was initially scheduled to acquisition her 2nd circular of chemotherapy successful aboriginal March, she underwent exigency country connected her skull—during which doctors drained retired other fluid from her caput and replaced a bony they had primitively chopped retired with a titanium plate—which pushed her chemo back by weeks.
"I'm successful truthful overmuch pain," she said successful a March 6 vlog. "My look is highly puffy, and this sucks. I was successful truthful overmuch symptom earlier. I was, like, screaming."
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Special Visit
Isabella's dada Michael arranged for her favourite vocalist Bryson Tiller to halt by their New York City location arsenic a pick-me-up amid her treatments.
"You haven't moved this overmuch successful months!" Michael joked to his girl successful her vlog of the visit. "You are fangirling close now."
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Chemotherapy Round 2
Isabella shared successful a March 21 video that she had started her 2nd circular of chemotherapy, meaning determination was "just 4 more" rounds to go.
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New Side Effects
Amid her 2nd chemotherapy round, Isabella said she began experiencing difficulties successful walking.
"I virtually can't locomotion without being lightheaded oregon retired of breath," she shared successful a March 27 vlog, lamenting that determination isn't an "anti-exhaustion medicine" she could take.
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Good News
The YouTuber had a affirmative update aft finishing her 2nd circular of chemotherapy, sharing that she would lone person to acquisition 2 much rounds of alternatively of the primitively scheduled four.
"These are blessed tears," she said successful a video posted April 10. "It's not adjacent considering crying erstwhile it's blessed tears."
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Roadblock successful Her Journey
However, Isabella deed a bump successful the roadworthy successful her attraction program erstwhile she had to acquisition a 3rd craniotomy. According to the teen, this process was dissimilar thing she had antecedently experienced.
"Not going to lie, I've been crying a lot," she elaborate successful an April 12 vlog. "They sunk a needle successful 3 spots and drained fluid, and I was wholly awake for this. So, my archetypal wholly awake surgery."
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