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<\/a><\/figure>\n\u2018It\u2019s been rough, it\u2019s been challenging and it\u2019s been very hard, but I know I\u2019ll get through it,\u2019 Isabella said in a\u00a0YouTube video.<\/p>\n
The budding model went on to describe some of the side effects she experienced after the surgery, which saw using a walker and a wheelchair to get around in the wake of having the 4cm tumor removed.<\/p>\n
The college student said she was also very emotional following the surgery, which she put down to the steroids she was taking, and would \u2018bawl\u2019 whenever she met someone new.<\/p>\n
Isabella also pointed out she\u2019s been in New York recovering from her surgery for longer than she was at college, which was 68 days.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019ll be back,\u2019 she assured viewers. \u2018Just taking a pause.\u2019<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old also had to undergo the egg freezing process, as the radiation and chemotherapy can effect her fertility.<\/p>\n
\u2018That was not\u00a0fun for me,\u2019 she admitted. \u2018I am not a big needle person so this whole experience\u2026 I\u2019ve gotten used to my blood and IVs but shots? That was rough.<\/p>\n
\u2018Basically [it] was three shots in my stomach, hurt so bad, that was every day for maybe a week.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Isabella appeared on Good Morning America last week with her father Michael, revealing her devastating diagnosis<\/p>\n
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The college freshman said she was looking forward to going back to college, joking she\u2019s even jealous of her twin sister, Sophia, sitting her finals<\/p>\n
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The 19-year-old also had to undergo the egg freezing process, as the radiation and chemotherapy can effect her fertility (pictured with her twin sister, Sophia, in hospital)<\/p>\n
The teen then underwent her egg retrieval on Thanksgiving day \u2013 explaining that she went home after the procedure, \u2018slept for six or seven hours\u2019 then got up and celebrated the holiday surrounded by her family.<\/p>\n
Isabella started radiation treatment after Thanksgiving, and a week after she started she decided to shave her head.<\/p>\n
\u2018So I cut my hair probably I would say like the end of the second week,\u2019 she recalled, adding it was around \u20184am\u2019 when she decided to get rid of it all, joking that she went through a \u2018mid-life crisis\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018It started to thin and just kind of fall out\u2026 I couldn\u2019t even like look at myself because of just worse than probably not having hair.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s definitely sad,\u2019 she continued, adding she had more or less been growing it for 18 years.<\/p>\n
\u2018Because [I] don\u2019t really cut my hair.\u2019<\/p>\n
Isabella said she had a wig, but was more comfortable without it.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s just not my hair,\u2019 she said simply. \u2018It does looks really similar [though].\u2019<\/p>\n
Despite facing six months of chemotherapy, which she will undergo at\u00a0Duke University where her twin sister, Sophia, is studying, Isabella is positive about what is ahead \u2013 saying it\u2019s nice to have homecooked meals and be around her dogs.<\/p>\n
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Isabella started radiation treatment after Thanksgiving, and a week after she started she decided to shave her hair<\/p>\n
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Isabella is positive about what is ahead \u2013 saying it\u2019s nice to have homecooked meals and be around her dogs. She is pictured here at Thanksgiving with Michael and Sophia<\/p>\n
The college student admitted she was excited about returning to normal life eventually.<\/p>\n
\u2018Like I can\u2019t really go to school right now, obviously, and [it\u2019s crazy] how much I wish I [could] take her [Sophia\u2019s] final exam or like just go back to school,\u2019 she said wistfully. \u2018But that will change.\u2019<\/p>\n
Isabella first revealed her diagnosis to the world in a\u00a0Good Morning America segment last week, where she appeared with her father, Michael.<\/p>\n
Isabella\u2019s doctor Dr. David Ashley also appeared on GMA, explaining although the type of tumor was \u2018incredibly rare\u2019 \u2013\u00a0 with fewer than 10 cases a year in patients her age \u2013 her prognosis was good.<\/p>\n
\u2018There are four types of medulloblastoma, and Isabella has what\u2019s known as a WNT subtype of this,\u2019 Dr Ashley explained on GMA.<\/p>\n
\u2018Patients have 90 per cent plus survival rates beyond five years and the majority are completely cured.<\/p>\n
\u2018With Isabella, I\u2019m very optimistic that her outcome will be terrific. She is doing fabulously.\u2019<\/p>\n
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