Michael Strahan, heart, and his daughters Sophia Strahan, left, and Isabella Strahan arrive on the Children’ Selection Sports activities Awards on Thursday, July 11, 2019, on the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Michael Strahan, heart, and his daughters Sophia Strahan, left, and Isabella Strahan arrive on the Children’ Selection Sports activities Awards on Thursday, July 11, 2019, on the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Good Morning America anchor and former NFL participant Michael Strahan revealed on Thursday’s present that his teenage daughter was not too long ago recognized with medulloblastoma, a uncommon type of mind most cancers.
“I am very happy with her and she or he’s all the time been robust and that is one thing that’s so private that I did not know if it will be one thing that she’d wish to share,” Strahan mentioned.
However Isabella Strahan, a 19-year-old pupil on the College of Southern California, determined to inform her personal story to GMA‘s Robin Roberts.
Isabella mentioned in September, she started experiencing excessive complications, in addition to nausea and an lack of ability to stroll straight. At first, she thought she had vertigo. However in late October, she started vomiting blood. She texted her twin sister Sophia, who knowledgeable the remainder of the household. Michael Strahan then took her to the physician.
Isabella’s MRI outcomes confirmed a fast-growing, 4 centimeter mind tumor that was bigger than a golf ball. She had an emergency surgical procedure to have the tumor eliminated the subsequent day, Roberts mentioned.
However Isabella not too long ago rang the bell, a celebratory custom for most cancers sufferers who full their radiation or chemotherapy remedy. Isabella had 30 classes of radiation and can start chemotherapy at Duke College in February, she mentioned.
Isabella was in rehabilitation for a month and needed to be taught to stroll once more. Now, she says she’s feeling good.
“I am very excited for this complete course of to wrap, however you simply must maintain residing day by day, I feel, via the entire thing,” she mentioned.
She has began a YouTube channel to doc her journey via vlogs, or video blogs. Proceeds from the content material will go to Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Mind Tumor Middle.
“It has been like two months of holding it quiet, which is unquestionably troublesome,” Isabell mentioned.
She mentioned she needs to be “a voice and be an individual individuals who possibly are going via chemotherapy or radiation can have a look at and discover one thing attention-grabbing about their day.”
Michael Strahan mentioned the expertise has modified his perspective about his personal life, and has highlighted the significance of help.
“Perspective is a giant factor,” Isabella mentioned. “I am grateful simply to stroll or see pals or do one thing, trigger when you may’t do one thing, it actually impacts you.”
Michael Strahan mentioned: “I actually assume that, in quite a lot of methods, I am the luckiest man on the earth as a result of I received an incredible daughter, and I do know she’s going via it, however I do know that we’re by no means given greater than we will deal with, and that she is gonna crush this.” He added: “I would like her. I do not know what I might do with out her.”
For now, Isabella mentioned she is trying ahead to getting again to California and persevering with her school training.
