The 19-year-old revealed in January that she was identified with a mind tumor.
Six months after being identified with a mind tumor, Isabella Strahan is sharing a glimpse into her day-to-day life.
The 19-year-old daughter of “Good Morning America” co-anchor Michael Strahan, shared in a brand new video Wednesday on her YouTube channel what it is like as she undergoes chemotherapy and works on her restoration.
In a video filmed by her twin sister, Sophia Strahan, Isabella takes viewers inside an space in her house she has arrange as “Isabella’s Station,” the place she shops a container full of medication bottles, amongst different issues.
“These are my medicines, that I take to remain alive,” Isabella mentioned.
Later within the video, the teenager provides viewers a glimpse into the variety of medical appointments she has, together with dermatology, bloodwork and occupational remedy on that day alone.
In one other clip, Isabella is seen being handled by a nurse at house.
Isabella was only one month into her freshman yr on the College of Southern California in Los Angeles final fall when she started experiencing complications and nausea. After testing, medical doctors found she had developed a fast-growing 4-centimeter tumor, bigger than a golf ball, at the back of her mind, which was identified as medulloblastoma.
Medulloblastoma is a kind of malignant tumor that accounts for about 20% of all childhood mind tumors, in keeping with estimates revealed in the Journal of Medical Neuroscience.
Since her analysis, which she revealed publicly in January, Isabella has undergone mind surgical procedure in addition to a number of rounds of radiation therapy.
She started chemotherapy in February and is anticipated to complete the therapy in Could.
Isabella shared in a YouTube video on April 10 that her physician diminished her rounds of chemotherapy from six to 4, permitting her to complete sooner than anticipated.
“My physician simply known as me and instructed me I solely should do two extra rounds of chemotherapy, and it is like the largest factor. I am so pleased,” Strahan mentioned whereas crying what she described as “pleased tears.” “So I will be carried out in Could and I can type of attempt to have a summer season to really feel higher.”
Along with her rounds of chemotherapy diminished, Isabella mentioned she may have extra time without work from therapies earlier than returning within the fall to USC.
