Michael Strahan's Daughter Isabella Calls First Round of Chemo 'Poison,' Recalls 'Horrible' Week After Treatment

“My first round of chemo experience was one of the worst things I've done ever in my entire life,” the 19-year-old said after being diagnosed with a brain tumor

Michael Strahan's daughter Isabella Strahan is keeping a smile on her face despite sharing how difficult her first round of chemotherapy was following her brain tumor diagnosis.

On Wednesday, the 19-year-old student and model posted the ninth installment of her YouTube series, where she's been sharing her health journey after having emergency surgery in October to remove a large medulloblastoma — a type of malignant tumor — in her cerebellum.

In the vlog, Isabella is home recovering after undergoing treatment in North Carolina at the Duke University Hospital.

She’s in good spirits as she opens up several Valentine’s Day gifts and letters from patients at the MSK Cancer Center. However, she recalled the painful first week she had following chemotherapy.

“My first round of chemo experience was one of the worst things I've done ever in my entire life. Oh my God," Isabella said. "I feel like people made it look so much easier."

“The first week in the hospital was horrible. It actually wasn't horrible until it got horrible,” she explained. “It just felt weird getting chemo. I don’t know, you don’t really think you’re gonna get poison put through your body.”

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Isabella said she could feel the chemo going through her entire body and she’s been extremely achy since then. She also dealt with bad rigors and vomiting.

“The last day in the hospital I felt pretty bad but I would say the worst was yet to come,” she quipped.

In the video, Isabella said that once she returned home, the pain was excruciating, noting that there have only been two other instances in her entire life where she felt pain that bad.

“One was like two days before I went to the ER when my head hurt so bad. Two was after my surgery when my head hurt so bad. Three is this jaw pain,” she said.

“I’ve never gotten a root canal but it felt like someone had just ripped every single one of my teeth out and just set it back in my mouth with no medicine. My gums, my teeth, my jaw, my tongue,” she continued. “There were tears over this jaw pain. That was for three days.”

Isabella then joked that her “hair is insufficient now” and being bald is the least of her worries after beginning treatment because having no hair "doesn't bring me pain."

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In addition to the head, chest, and jaw pain, the model said she’s now also struggling with soreness and nausea.

“You don’t really know what’s going on inside and you can’t really stop it because the chemo is already inside you,” she explained. “It’s just my bone pain everywhere, I am just so sore. I feel like a tin man. I need to get a yoga membership.”

Isabella added that the symptoms and her inability to eat make her feel like a “completely new person” now.

Isabella first shared her diagnosis during a segment on Good Morning America alongside her dad. She was diagnosed with the condition in October after she started experiencing headaches — which she initially attributed to vertigo — during her freshman year at the University of Southern California.

She has since been documenting her journey undergoing treatment in her YouTube series, which she started to benefit Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center.

"It's been like, two months of keeping it quiet, which is definitely difficult. I don't wanna hide it anymore 'cause it's hard to always keep in," Isabella said on GMA. "I hope to just kind of be a voice, and be [someone] who maybe [those who] are going through chemotherapy or radiation can look at."

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