Michael Strahan and his daughter are offering updates on her ongoing brain cancer battle.
The “Good Morning America” co-anchor shared that 19-year-old Isabella has been “fighting through” her chemotherapy treatment, especially after a recent hospitalization.
“The last three days have been a little rough because she had a fever that kind of comes and goes,” he told his co-anchors during Wednesday’s broadcast. “I had to take her to the hospital and thought she’d come home a few hours later … It’s been three days, but hopefully she’ll be home today.”
Isabella and her dad appeared together on “GMA” for an exclusive interview, last month, to publicly reveal that she was diagnosed with large medulloblastoma — a malignant brain tumor — in her cerebellum.
She recently began chemotherapy at Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center in Durham, N.C.
“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,” the former NFL star added about side effects the student and model has experienced.
Also on Wednesday, Isabella posted the latest installment of her YouTube series, in which she’s been documenting her health journey after having emergency surgery in October to remove the tumor.
“My first round of chemo experience was one of the worst things I’ve done ever in my entire life. Oh, my God,” she shared while giving Valentine’s Day greetings and chatting with an unidentified woman. “I feel like people made it look so much easier.”
She continued: “The first week in the hospital was horrible. It actually wasn’t horrible until it got horrible. It just felt weird getting chemo. I don’t know, you don’t really think you’re gonna get poison put through your body.”
Isabella went on to explain she experienced some of her worst pain after returning home from the hospital.
“I’ve never gotten a root canal but it felt like someone had just ripped every single one of my teeth out and just set it back in my mouth with no medicine,” she chuckled. “My gums, my teeth, my jaw, my tongue. There were tears over this jaw pain. That was like for three days.”
