Michael Strahan’s daughter Isabella, 19, reveals brain tumour diagnosis

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Michael Strahan’s daughter Isabella has revealed she’s battling a malignant brain tumour generally known as medulloblastoma.

The TV information anchor and his 19-year-old daughter shared throughout an look on Good Morning America that Isabella is present process remedy for the cancerous brain tumour, which develops within the decrease again a part of the brain referred to as the cerebellum.

Speaking to GMA co-anchor Robin Roberts on 11 January, Isabella mentioned she was identified with medulloblastoma in late October after she started experiencing complications throughout her first semester as a freshman on the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. “I’m feeling good, not too bad,” mentioned Isabella. “I’m very excited for this whole process to wrap, but you just have to keep living everyday, I think, through the whole thing.”

The faculty pupil first seen her signs when she started experiencing “excruciating” complications and nausea. She initially thought she was affected by vertigo, however when she wakened one morning and commenced throwing up blood, Isabella was inspired by her household to hunt medical consideration.

After receiving an MRI scan, medical doctors found Isabella had developed a four-centimeter tumour rising at the back of her brain, sized bigger than a golf ball. “I don’t really remember much,” Strahan mentioned of his daughter’s diagnosis. “I just remember trying to figure out how to get to [Los Angeles] ASAP. And it just doesn’t feel real. It just didn’t feel real.”

Although medulloblastoma is the most typical sort of cancerous brain tumour in youngsters, in accordance with the Mayo Clinic, Strahan mentioned that it’s “hardly ever” someone his daughter’s age is diagnosed with the condition.

The following day, Isabella underwent emergency surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on 27 October to remove the mass. After surgery, she went through one month of rehabilitation and several rounds of radiation treatment. “So I just finished radiation therapy, which is proton radiation, and I got to ring the bell yesterday,” Isabella told cancer survivor Roberts. “It was great. It was very exciting because it’s been a long 30 sessions, six weeks.”

In the start of February, {the teenager} will begin chemotherapy at Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center in Durham, North Carolina. “That’s my next step. I’m ready for it to start and be one day closer to being over,” Isabella mentioned on GMA.

She plans on documenting her journey in a brand new YouTube sequence to profit the kids’s hospital. “It’s been like, two months of keeping it quiet, which is definitely difficult. I don’t want to hide it anymore because it’s hard to always keep in,” Isabella defined. “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.”

The father-daughter duo agreed that the expertise has given them each a brand new perspective on life. “You learn that you’re probably not as strong as you thought you were when you have to really think about the real things, and I realised that I need support from everybody,” the previous skilled soccer participant mentioned. “You think that I’m the athlete, the tough guy, you know, I can come and handle, I’m the father in the family. It is not about any of that. It doesn’t matter. And it’s really made me change my perspective on so many things in my life.”

His daughter added: “Perspective is a big thing. I’m grateful. I am grateful just to walk or see friends or do something, because when you can’t do something, it really impacts you.”

Isabella is one among Strahan’s 4 youngsters. The former New York Giants star shares two youngsters – daughter Tanita, 32, and son Michael Jr, 29 – along with his first spouse, Wanda Hutchins. In 2004, he welcomed Isabella and her twin sister Sophia along with his second spouse, Jean Muggli.