After a setback with her cancer, Isabella Strahan has a second cranial surgery. She says, “I’m in so much pain.”

Hugs and prayers are still going out to Isabella Strahan as she goes through her cancer journey.
In her most recent video, though, she talks about the setbacks that meant she had to have a second craniotomy five months after the first one and the painful recovery that followed.

In 2023, Isabella Strahan was first told she had medulloblastoma. Since then, she’s been fighting brain cancer.

Strahan said in her YouTube video that she was “actually very nervous…more nervous for this one because it’s not like my brain that they’re messing with, it’s not as deep…” I’m interested in what recovery would look like, though. I’m not thrilled…at all. I’m actually a little scared.”

Her surgeon opened up her first scar again to clean it and “replace the bone that was initially cut out of her skull.” This was done to avoid any infections. Strahan was in a lot of pain while he was healing, which was very sad.

“I hurt so badly…”this is awful. I was in so much pain before that I wanted to scream. It’s not fun. I hope this is what all the fevers were about and why I’ve been in the hospital for a week. That’s why I hope I can go home soon after I get better. I don’t feel good, though.

Isabella was taken to the hospital before her second surgery because she had “the worst fever I think I’ve ever had,” as she said in an earlier video. […] I’m not feeling well. It doesn’t make me feel bad. I’ve been worse off, but I don’t feel good. I feel like I can hardly walk anymore.”

Isabella said that this recovery process was so much worse than the last one, even though this surgery was “less invasive” than the last one. “It’s crazy how puffy my face is.” It makes me feel terrible, and I didn’t plan to come out in this head wrap. I’m just really hurting. It’s awful. Because my first surgery was more complicated, I was on a lot more drugs.

The model, who is 19 years old, is happy that she “can still walk and talk,” even though she says, “doing that again would be really really rough and I don’t think I could do it.” It would be hard again, but I could do it.”

Today Isabella Strahan had surgery. She will need some time to heal before she can start chemotherapy again.