Michael Strahan’s daughterIsabella Strahanis trying to keep a positive mindset as she begins chemotherapy following her brain tumor diagnosis.
On Wednesday, the 19-year-old student andmodelposted the seventh installment of herYouTube series, where she’s been sharing her health journey after having emergency surgery last October to remove a large medulloblastoma —a type of malignant tumor— in her cerebellum.
In the vlog, Isabella is in North Carolina at the Duke University Hospital sitting in her room undergoing treatment. She was showing her chemotherapy port and wires before admitting that she’s been “freaking myself out.”
“I just got my big bag of chemo,” she quipped before sharing that the drugs have been “running for six hours.”
“I’m stressing myself out because I feel like everything could just go wrong with me at any moment,” she continued. “I don’t know, I’m just so terrified that my leg is going to start twitching, or what if my organs just shut down?”
Isabella Strahan.Isabella Strahan/Youtube
Isabella Strahan/Youtube
Isabella’s twin sisterSophiaand her father’s girlfriendKayla Quickquickly cut her off and told her to calm down and think more positively.
Isabella also noted that her eyes have been feeling “really strained” but she’s trying to stay positive. She even received a nice surprise from her dad who showed up to the hospital with her favorite breakfast from Chick-fil-a.
In her vlog, the model then decided to give a tour of her hospital room and parts of her floor in the hospital.
She said whenever she’s able to take a walk, she typically makes one or two laps around the floor before going back to her room.
Isabella Strahan showing her chemotherapy port.Isabella Strahan/Youtube
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Last week, Isabella gave a glimpse at her lengthy anddifficult preparation for chemotherapy. In her vlog, she laid in bed ahead of surgery to get her port placed. The device is surgically implanted and attached to a vein in her upper chest area in order for healthcare providers to draw blood and give treatments without a needle stick.
At the time, the college student explained that it’s been a difficult day as she continued to keep a smile on her face.
“Busy day,” she said. “I got an IV put in for this kidney thing…never fun. Healing from my port surgery…not fun at all. I now have a wire in my chest. They just put radioactive dye in my body and then I have a blood draw, and then an EKG, then I have another blood draw, then I have an MRI. So it’s a busy day.”
Michael Strahan with his daughter Isabella.Isabella Strahan/Youtube
Isabella then told her mother that her neck really hurts and her chest is sore from getting the port placement surgery. “Not the most fun,” she said in the clip.
Isabella first shared her diagnosis during a segment onGood Morning Americaalongside her dad. She was diagnosed with the condition in October after she started experiencing headaches — which she initially attributed to vertigo — during her freshman year at the University of Southern California.
She has since beendocumenting her journeyundergoing treatment in her YouTube series, which she started to benefit Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center.
“It’s been like, two months of keeping it quiet, which is definitely difficult. I don’t wanna hide it anymore ‘cause it’s hard to always keep in,” Isabella said onGMA.“I hope to just kind of be a voice, and be [someone] who maybe [those who] are going through chemotherapy or radiation can look at.”
source: people.com
