After receiving joyful information, Isabella Strahan has hit one other setback as she continues to battle medulloblastoma, a tumor that begins within the again a part of the mind. On Friday, the 19-year-old daughter of Michael Strahan uploaded a brand new YouTube vlog, wherein she revealed that she contracted a fever whereas recovering from her second spherical of chemotherapy, and was ultimately advised she wanted a 3rd craniotomy, only a month after her second.
As Isabella beforehand defined, she has to go to the hospital anytime she will get a fever of 100.4. Within the new video, the College of Southern California undergrad shares that she bought her chemotherapy port accessed, bought MRIs and CT scans, and bought an IV inserted — the latter of which led her to cry.
“So that they did just a little process. I’ve had this one earlier than. They caught a needle in three spots and drain fluid and I used to be utterly awake for this. My first utterly awake surgical procedure,” she later shared.
Isabella admitted that the ache was nonetheless troublesome to handle after the surgical procedure. “It isn’t as dangerous as the primary time however I am actually in ache. They do give me ache drugs…they do not work that nicely on me. So I am in a whole lot of ache,” she confessed, earlier than bursting into tears. “My head actually, actually hurts proper now. Not gonna lie, I have been crying quite a bit. I am in a whole lot of ache. It isn’t as dangerous as final time… my face is not as puffy however it actually hurts to do something.”
Isabella added that she will be able to barely transfer with out ache as a result of she has two IVs, a picc line, and her chemotherapy port, which all enable medical doctors to manage her medicines.
“I have not actually eaten a lot up to now three or 4 days, type of nothing. It is actually dangerous however I simply can’t actually eat and I am additionally not hungry,” she added. “There’s ups and downs to this as a result of I used to be consuming a lot per week in the past and now I can not eat something. I am in a down proper now.”
Though Isabella was quickly discharged, she was again within the hospital per week later resulting from “shortness of breath.”
On the finish of the video, the aspiring mannequin defined that she had her third craniotomy — the second of “simply draining fluid” — and though she was feeling “quite a bit higher,” it nonetheless meant her subsequent spherical of chemotherapy can be pushed again a month.
The information is particularly disappointing since Isabella was not too long ago advised her chemotherapy remedies had been lowered from six to 4, permitting her to be accomplished in Could as a substitute of July.
“Sure, I solely should do two rounds of chemo, however it’s nonetheless gonna be three months,” Isabella mentioned. “So I wasn’t very completely satisfied about that. I used to be simply bawling my eyes out as a result of it is simply so disappointing once you’re like, ‘Sure! I can end by Could!’ After which every little thing adjustments due to a silly head an infection.”
“So now I will be accomplished just a little later than I needed to, however oh nicely,” she mentioned.
As Isabella defined in her vlog shared on Wednesday, ending her chemotherapy rounds earlier would enable her extra time to get well earlier than heading again to USC within the fall.
The coed first started struggling signs in early October — a month into her freshman yr at USC in Los Angeles. After testing, medical doctors found she had developed a fast-growing 4-centimeter tumor, bigger than a golf ball, at the back of her mind, which was recognized as medulloblastoma. She underwent surgical procedure to have the mass eliminated that very same month, simply sooner or later earlier than her nineteenth birthday.
Isabella then launched her YouTube sequence to doc her most cancers therapy journey, from the setbacks to the nice surprises.
Watch Isabella Strahan’s newest vlog in full under.
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