Michael Strahan‘s 19-year-old daughter Isabella printed she was diagnosed with a brain tumor remaining fall.

Strahan, 52, and his daughter appeared on Good Morning America on Thursday, January 11, opening up for the first time about her struggle with medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumor. Isabella advised Robin Roberts that she began to revel in complications in a while after she started her freshman yr on the University of Southern California.

“I didn’t notice the rest used to be off till most definitely, like, October 1,” Isabella recalled. “That’s once I without a doubt noticed complications, nausea, couldn’t walk immediately.”

She first of all concept her signs have been indicative of vertigo, however her condition worsened over the course of several weeks. “I woke up, most definitely at, like, 1 p.m. I dreaded waking up. But I used to be throwing up blood,” she added. “I was like, ‘Hm, this most probably isn’t just right.’ So I texted [my sister], who then notified the whole circle of relatives.”

Strahan encouraged his daughter to “get a thorough checkup” and is grateful he did. “I believe like this physician stored her life because she used to be thorough enough to mention, ‘Let’s do the full checkup,'” he famous.

Isabella underwent an electrocardiogram (EKG) and an MRI ahead of being knowledgeable that she had a tumor at the back of her brain that was larger than a golf ball — and growing briefly.

“It didn’t feel actual,” Strahan recalled. “I don’t in point of fact remember much. I just bear in mind making an attempt to figure out the best way to get to L.A. ASAP. And it just doesn’t really feel actual. It simply didn’t really feel actual.”

While medulloblastoma accounts for nearly 20 % of formative years brain tumor circumstances — about 500 children are identified each 12 months — Strahan identified that it’s “hardly” noticed in a affected person of Isabella’s age. “But it’s nonetheless horrifying because it’s still such a lot to head thru,” he said. “And the hardest thing to recover from is to assume that she has to move thru this herself.”

He continued, “Doctors stated, ‘You shouldn’t chance trying to put her on a plane to get her to the East Coast or to any other physician. We know what it is and we should get it out once conceivable.'”

Isabella had an emergency surgical procedure on the day of her nineteenth birthday, to take away the mass. (Strahan used to be absent from his cohosting tasks on GMA for just about three weeks from overdue October to mid-November 2023 due to “private circle of relatives issues.”)

While getting better after her process, Isabella’s dual sister, Sophia, was once via her aspect. “She was once closely medicated, as you could imagine,” Strahan stated of his daughter. “But she would have conversations. She had a large number of her pals and they would come over just to sit together with her. And there were occasions when she was once in a lot of ache. She was once drowsing so much.”

Isabella’s treatment endured with radiation therapy and a month of rehabilitation. She printed on Thursday that she not too long ago “were given to ring the bell” following six weeks of proton radiation periods. Her “subsequent step” is chemotherapy, which she’ll begin at Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center in Durham, North Carolina, in February.

“I’m feeling just right. Not too unhealthy. And I’m very excited for this complete procedure to wrap. But you simply need to stay residing on a daily basis, I think, thru the entire thing,” the school pupil informed Roberts. “It’s been, like, two months of keeping it quiet, which is definitely difficult.”

After first of all holding her diagnosis underneath wraps, Isabella will proportion her journey in a YouTube series in collaboration with Duke. “I don’t wanna hide it anymore ’cause it’s hard to at all times keep in,” she said. “I am hoping to simply kind of be a voice, and be [any individual] who people, possibly [those that] are going through chemotherapy or radiation can look at.”

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Her health scare has given her a new “point of view” on her existence. “I’m thankful,” she mentioned. “I am grateful just to walk or see pals or do one thing, ’cause when you'll be able to’t do something, it like, really affects you.”

Strahan has additionally been inspired by way of his daughter’s journey. “You be informed that you’re probably not as sturdy as you concept you had been when you must in point of fact consider the true issues, and I spotted that I need support from everybody,” the retired NFL player added. “You suppose that I’m the athlete, the cruel man, you already know, I can come and deal with, I’m the daddy within the circle of relatives. It is not about any of that. It doesn’t subject. And it’s in point of fact made me alternate my viewpoint on so many issues in my life.

Strahan shares his dual daughters with ex-wife Jean Muggli. He up to now welcomed daughter Tatiana and son Michael Jr. along with his first wife, Wanda Hutchins.

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