As Michael Strahan’s 19-year-old daughter Isabella battles brain cancer, she has shared new details about her side effects in one of her recent YouTube videos. Isabella was diagnosed with brain cancer in October 2023, and has been documenting her health journey in YouTube vlogs ever since. In her vlog, Isabella showed her arriving at the Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center in Durham, North Carolina, to get her PICC line removed after 10 weeks. A PICC line, uses a large vein in the arm to reach the chest, and she’s been receiving infusions and medications with it. Isabella said that the removal did not hurt and was all smiles going into her third chemotherapy treatment. “Let’s go! Third chemo!” she said.
She shared updates about her side effects of chemotherapy, saying her appetite has completely gone. “For the past few weeks, I’d say, I had the biggest appetite, and then last week, it just dropped to zero. So, it’s annoying,” she said. Along with appetite loss, Isabella also shared that she has been experiencing short-term memory loss. “I’m having a sandwich that I don’t remember ordering,” she said after mixing up which day it was. “I got this medication that makes me rigor, which is like shake extremely and cold. So I guess I ordered myself a sandwich.” “Tomorrow’s really my last day of chemo,” she added. “It’s crazy and then it’s my last cycle and then I’m done. It’s insane.” In her next vlog the following day, Isabella gave an update after completing her third round of chemotherapy, admitting that she was pretty “loopy.” “It’s been a few days since I’ve done chemo and I didn’t do Vincristine, I’m done with that so I feel a lot better. I’ve just been sleeping for like 18 hours,” she said. “But I’m home.” She continued, “I’m not in much pain. At the hospital, I don’t remember Tuesday because I’m given this drug to protect my hearing and just because I have a reaction to it, they give me Ativan. And for some reason, I can’t remember a single thing about that day. So if I seemed loopy, that’s why.”
The 19-year-old shared her excitement that she only had one more round of chemotherapy left. “I just want it to be June already,” she added. “That’s the thing, I just wait around for the next time I get chemo and I’m kind of scared once I’m done, how I’m gonna go back to normal life. Because I feel like there’s always gonna be another treatment or something I have to do. But that’s a later problem. Otherwise, I’m doing good.”