Michael Strahan described his daughter's diagnosis of cancer as “the worst nightmare of all parents” while arguing their recovery of the disease.
Isabella Strahan was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in October 2023 when she was only 19 years old, before being declared free of cancer the following summer.
And while the university student and daughter of the former Giant star is now working, the co-presenter of Good Morning America Strahan opened about the terrible experience in a new ABC special.
“As a father, you are afraid,” he said in “Life interrupted” a new special who documents the Trip of Isabella cancer, which was Previous view in GMA Thursday. 'Oh my God, you are just afraid.
“It never occurred to us that it would be cancer, I will be honest with you, just looking at the trajectory at that time of his life, and we have no history of anything bad in the family,” he added.
Isabella was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumor that develops in the cerebellum after initially fighting to walk in a straight line.
Michael Strahan photographed with his daughter Isabella in October 2023, a few days before they told her that she had a brain tumor
Isabella, seen with her sister Sophia, underwent chemotherapy and surgery rounds
According to Gma, she believed she had vertigo, before being nausea one day and then vomiting blood.
Finally he went to the emergency room, where it was determined that he had cancer, and that he was quickly operated to try to remove the tumor.
Isabella then underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy rounds, in addition to needing two monitoring surgeries after obtaining an infection of the initial operation.
'She wasn't eating much. I was thin, tired and bald and all the things you hate to see your son, 'said Strahan People Earlier this month. 'I don't know how he did.
'I was fighting with that. I always say that she is much stronger than me.
'His spirit was there. One of the things he said, probably the most difficult thing I had to listen was: 'Dad, I will do anything. I want to live. I usually cry when I tell people that, but I'm trying to keep it together for you.
Isabella now has no cancer, although she still undergoes medical monitoring by doctors
Isabella documented her battle and cancer recovery on her YouTube channel
Isabella was seen during vacation on the Caribbean with her sister Sophia and shared photos on social networks celebrating her return to the health of the Bahamas.
'And we are back …' Isabella subtitled the images on social networks at the end of December.
“My first round of chemotherapy experience was one of the worst things I have done in my whole life,” he also said on his YouTube channel. 'It simply felt weird get chemotherapy. I don't know, you really don't think you're going to get poison through your body.
While Isabella is now free of cancer, Strahan admitted that she still has a feeling of nervousness with respect to her daughter, whom she is being monitored by doctors.
“There will not be a time when she receives a scan where I will not be in pins and needles,” he said. 'I don't care if it's 10 years, 20 years old, 30 years old from now on, you'll always be nervous. And I realized that she feels it too.