Isabella Strahan is all smiles in a new vlog she filmed before her second round of chemotherapy.
The 19 year old daughter Michael Strahan posted a new video on YouTube on Thursday in which she is greeted by her twin sister, Sophia, upon arriving at Duke University, where Sophia studies.
Isabella is currently undergoing treatment for medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor, at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, located on the Duke campus in Durham, North Carolina. The hospital is ranked among the best in the country for the treatment of brain cancer and brain tumor.
“I only got to Duke because I have chemotherapy on Monday, but we made it,” Isabella says in the video. “Sophia came to greet us.”
The video continues with Sophia and Isabella strolling around campus, enjoying some Chick-fil-A together and watching a basketball game. Despite her sister’s loyalty to the Blue Devils, Isabella hilariously names her own school, the University of Southern California, at one point in the vlog.
“At Duke’s game! Yes, go, Duke,” says Isabella. “Just kidding! USC, fight for your life.”
Isabella was a freshman at USC when she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, which grows in the cerebellum, the area of the brain that controls movement and coordination.
As the video continues, Isabella shows a trip to the beauty salon alongside her twin sister and a visit to her father before her second round of chemotherapy.
Ultimately, the video ends with Isabella in a hospital bed and Sophia lying in a nearby bed.
“It’s chemo number two…that means four more to go!” Isabella says to the camera. “That means after this is over, there are only four more months left.”
The new round of chemotherapy arrives three months after Isabella finished your first roundwhich she documented on YouTube, sharing the “painful” experience with her followers.
“My eyes are tired. It hurts to look around,” she said in a previous video. “It feels like my whole mouth got a giant root canal done all over my mouth, every single tooth, and I just ripped it out and didn’t even surgically put it back in. My jaw hurts, the bottom of my tongue hurts when I swallow water.”
The chemotherapy session had such a huge impact on her body that Isabella admitted she “preferred radiation” to chemotherapy. “And I didn’t like the radiation,” she added.
Isabella launched a YouTube series to document her cancer treatment journey, which included six weeks of radiation treatment.
In January, Isabella and Michael appeared together on Good Morning America in an interview with Robin Roberts to publicly share the news of your diagnosis.
Isabella revealed that she began showing symptoms at the beginning of October and underwent surgery to remove the mass in the same month, just one day before her 19th birthday.
Earlier this month, she also shared that she needed to be rushed to emergency surgery after several setbacks in his treatment.
“I have a really bad fever,” she explained in the video. “If you have a fever over 100.4, you have to come in.”
After three days in hospital, during which she underwent a blood transfusion, MRI and cleaning of the chemotherapy port, Isabella was discharged.
RELATED CONTENT:
