Michael Strahan’s daughter Isabella Strahan gave fans a painful update on how chemotherapy is going for her after she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
In a vlog on her YouTube account Friday, the 20-year-old shared that she felt like she was “having a heart attack” while rubbing an ice pack on her now-shaved head to mitigate her headache.
“Everything hurts,” she said in the clip titled, “Vlog 8: Recovering from Chemo at home.”
“My eyes are strained. They hurt to look to the sides. My whole mouth feels like I got one giant root canal of my whole mouth of every single tooth and just ripped out and not even surgically put back in,” the college student added.
“My jaw hurts, the bottom of my tongue hurts when I gulp water.”
Isabella said that she would “prefer radiation” — and even “brain surgery” — over chemotherapy due to the pain her body is experiencing.
“This one’s just the longest journey. Just the hardest. I think it just stresses me out because so much could go wrong,” she continued.
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“I feel. It’s like, ‘Oh, no. My heart hurts. That could mean I’m having a heart attack.’ Or like, my eyes strained, what if my eyes stop working? Or like, what if my teeth just rot and fall out? I don’t know.”
Despite the downside of the cancer treatment, the University of Southern California student said she is happy to be back home sleeping in her own bed.
“It’s my first time home and I slept in my bed for the first time in a while,” she said. “Personally, I don’t mind the hospital too much because I feel safe. But I do like being home.”
Isabella also shared video from her stay in the hospital and family time she spent with dad Michael and her twin sister, Sophia Strahan.
Her update comes more than a month after she and her father emotionally revealed the diagnosis in a televised segment.
“I didn’t notice anything was off ’til probably like Oct. 1,” Isabella told Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America” in January.
“That’s when I definitely noticed headaches, nausea, couldn’t walk straight.”
The young woman said she first notified her family after she woke up throwing up blood.
After undergoing several tests, doctors discovered she had a malignant brain tumor known as a medulloblastoma.
Michael, 52, was absent from “GMA” for more than three weeks in late October 2023 due to “personal family matters,” but he never disclosed the details surrounding his absence.
Isabella later revealed she froze her eggs following her brain cancer diagnosis and finished her last round of radiation in January.
