Michael Strahan's daughter, Isabella, revealed in new vlog post that she was in great pain after having to undergo a second brain operation during her ongoing battle with brain cancer.
“Actually, I'm very nervous. I'm more nervous for this one because it's not like they're playing with my brain,” the 19-year-old student said Wednesday. “It's not as deep…but I'm curious to know what the recovery would look like. I'm not excited…at all. In fact, I'm kind of nervous.
“Yay. How lucky am I to have another brain operation,” the teen added dryly.
The model explained that doctors opened the original scar on the back of her head to clean and drain the fluid to prevent infections.
Later in the video, she was shown in bed with several bandages wrapped tightly around her head.
“I’m in so much pain…and it sucks. I was in so much pain earlier that I was screaming. It's not fun,” she said. “I hope that's what's causing all my fevers and why I've been in the hospital for a week. So I hope I can go home home shortly after recovering. But I don't feel my best.
“My face is so swollen, it’s crazy. I feel really bad and I didn't expect to go out with this blindfold thing on,” she continued. “I'm just in a lot of pain. It sucks. I was way more drugged during my first surgery because it was more invasive.
“It’s no fun having your head split open,” she added. “It's not fun but I'm super glad I can still walk and talk and they didn't touch my brain because to do that again would be really, really hard. I don't think I could do it. I could do it, but again it would be difficult.
According to Isabella, the emergency surgery pushed back her second round of chemotherapy.
“I feel like I've lost all the progress I've made since October,” she continued. “That’s not the worst it’s been!”
Her unexpected surgery came a day after she posted a vlog telling viewers she had been forced to return to hospital following a series of fevers after having chemo for the first time.
“I catfished everyone,” she said in a post titled “Two surprise trips to the emergency room.”
“We left the hospital after three or four days and now we're back less than 12 hours later because I have a fever again,” she said. “I had a fever of 102 and had to come back. So we're trying to figure out what's wrong, but no one can find out.”
“It’s the worst fever I think I’ve had,” she added. “I don't feel as horrible as the first time. I just have a really bad headache so I didn't think anything of it and now we're in the emergency room. I do not feel good. I don't feel horrible. I've felt worse but I don't feel good. I feel like I can barely walk now.
At the hospital, she had her first blood transfusion and an MRI of her eyes.
The post also comes after the model revealed she had celebrated his 19th birthday one day after his first brain surgery in October 2023.
Since the diagnosis, she and her famous father have has been very open about her cancer journey.
“I had to take her to the hospital and I thought she would come home a few hours later. … It’s been three days, but I hope she’ll be home today,” Michael, 52, said on “Good Morning America” at the time.
“It’s hard to watch her go through this, but I know she’s a tough young woman and she’s going to get through this.”