Current:Home > ScamsMichael Strahan's daughter Isabella, 19, shares 'not fun' health update ahead of chemotherapy -VisionFunds
Michael Strahan's daughter Isabella, 19, shares 'not fun' health update ahead of chemotherapy
View
Date:2025-04-15 18:52:01
Michael Strahan's daughter Isabella Strahan is sharing the "not fun" part of her journey before she starts chemotherapy for cancer.
The 19-year-old student and model posted a YouTube vlog on Wednesday, showing the latest in her journey after she was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in October.
In the vlog, Isabella shared the procedure for getting her chemotherapy port placed in her chest, which allows her medical team to draw blood and administer treatments without continuous needles.
"I’m getting my port placed today, which is a device that goes on your chest for administering chemo, getting my blood drawn, all that fun stuff," Isabella said, adding, "I’m not excited."
The model also had to be administered for an IV. "I would say it's not my fave," she said as she winced during the process.
Isabella, who was joined by her mom, Jean Muggli, and her aunt, took a break from treatment for a card game while she was "waiting for a kidney test."
"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," she said of her "busy day" ahead.
In January, Strahan and Isabella revealed her cancer diagnosis on "Good Morning America" with host Robin Roberts.
"I didn't notice anything was off till probably like Oct. 1," the 19-year-old said. "That's when I definitely noticed headaches, nausea, couldn't walk straight." Eventually, she said, she began to dread waking up because she was throwing up.
Isabella's twin sister Sophia encouraged her to seek treatment and Isabella received her diagnosis in October following an MRI.
One day before Isabella's 19th birthday, she had surgery to remove the tumor, which was slightly larger than a golf ball.
Strahan was absent from his hosting duties for three weeks at the end of October into November due to "some personal family matters," an ABC spokesperson told USA TODAY in a statement at the time. Up until his "GMA" appearance with Isabella, he had not gone into the details of his absence.
'GMA':Michael Strahan and daughter Isabella, 19, reveal brain tumor diagnosis
What is medulloblastoma?
Medulloblastoma is a cancer that typically develops in the cerebellum, the back of the brain responsible for movement and motor skills, according to the National Cancer Institute.
The cancer type is most commonly found among children.
Michael Strahan's heartbreaking newscomes with a lesson about privacy. Will we listen?
veryGood! (813)
Related
- Civic engagement nonprofits say democracy needs support in between big elections. Do funders agree?
- Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' returns to theaters, in IMAX 70mm, with new 'Dune: Part Two' footage
- Rescuers race against the clock as sea turtles recover after freezing temperatures
- Ingenuity, NASA's little Mars helicopter, ends historic mission after 72 flights
- Costco membership growth 'robust,' even amid fee increase: What to know about earnings release
- Small cargo plane crashes after takeoff from New Hampshire airport, pilot hospitalized
- A day after Trump testifies, lawyers have final say in E. Jean Carroll defamation trial
- Milo Ventimiglia Makes Rare Comment About Married Life With Jarah Mariano
- What to know about Tuesday’s US House primaries to replace Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz
- 'Heartless crime': Bronze Jackie Robinson statue cut down, stolen from youth baseball field
Ranking
- B.A. Parker is learning the banjo
- Here's how to tell if your next flight is on a Boeing 737 Max 9
- Regional Mexican music is crossing borders and going global. Here’s how it happened
- DJ Rick Buchanan Found Decapitated in Memphis Home
- Bodycam footage shows high
- US nuclear agency isn’t consistent in tracking costs for some construction projects, report says
- Why Jesse Eisenberg Was Shaking in Kieran Culkin’s Arms on Sundance Red Carpet
- Data breaches and ID theft are still hitting records. Here's how to protect yourself.
Recommendation
At site of suspected mass killings, Syrians recall horrors, hope for answers
Companies in Texas Exploit ‘Loopholes,’ Attribute 1 Million Pounds of Air Pollution to Recent Freezing Weather
One of two detainees who escaped from a local jail in Arkansas has been captured
Coco Gauff eliminated from Australian Open in semifinal loss to Aryna Sabalenka
A Mississippi company is sentenced for mislabeling cheap seafood as premium local fish
Person taken hostage in southern Germany, but rescued unharmed
Small farmers hit by extreme weather could get assistance from proposed insurance program
Nicole Kidman couldn't shake off her 'Expats' character: 'It became a part of who I was'