Michael Strahan’s daughter ‘screaming’ in pain after second brain surgery

Michael Strahan’s daughter, Isabella, revealed in a new vlog post that she was in an incredible amount of pain after having to undergo a second brain surgery during her ongoing battle with brain cancer.

“I’m actually very nervous. I’m more nervous for this one because it’s not like my brain that they’re messing with,” the student, 19, said on Wednesday. “It’s not as deep … but I’m curious as to what recovery would look like. I’m not excited…at all. I’m actually kind of nervous.”

“Yay. How lucky am I to get another brain surgery,” the teen added dryly.

The model explained that doctors cut open the original scar on the back of her head to clean and drain the fluid in order to prevent infections.

Later in the video, she showed herself in bed with several bandages wrapped tightly around her head.

“I’m in so much pain…and this sucks. I was in so much pain earlier, I was, like, screaming. This is not fun,” she said. “Hopefully this is what was causing all my fevers and why I’ve been in the hospital for a week. So hopefully I will get to go home soon after I heal from this. But I don’t feel my best.”

“My face is so puffy, it’s insane. I feel really awful and I was not expecting to come out in this head wrap thing,” she continued. “I’m just in a lot of pain. It sucks. I was way more drugged up for my first surgery because it was more invasive.” 

“It’s not fun getting your head cut 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 doing that again would be really, really rough. I don’t think I could do it. I could do it but it would be rough again.”

According to Isabella, the emergency surgery pushed back her second round of chemotherapy.

“I feel like I lost every progress of my walking since October,” she went on. “This isn’t the worst it’s been!”

Her unexpected surgery came a day after she released a vlog telling viewers that she had been forced to return to the hospital following a string of fevers after undergoing chemo for the first time.

“I catfished everyone,” she said in a post titled “Two surprise trips to the ER.”

“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 explained. “I got a fever of 102 and had to come back in. So we’re trying to figure out what’s wrong but no one can find out what’s wrong.”

“This is the worst fever I think I’ve had,” she added. “I don’t feel as horrible as I did the first time. I just have a really bad headache so I thought nothing of it and now we’re in the ER. I don’t feel great. I don’t feel horrible. I’ve felt worse but I don’t feel good. I feel like I can barely walk now.”

While at the hospital, she underwent her first blood transfusion and an MRI of her eyes.

The post also comes after the model revealed that she had celebrated her 19th birthday a day after her first brain surgery in October 2023.

Since the diagnosis, both she and her famous dad have been very open about her cancer journey.

“I had to take her to the hospital and thought she’d come home a few hours later. … It’s been three days, but hopefully she’ll be home today,” Michael, 52, said during “Good Morning America” at the time.

“It is tough to see her go through it, but I know she’s a tough young lady and she’s going to make it through it.”