“That was just the worst moment any parent could expect,” Jean Muggli says about her daughter Isabella’s brain cancer in the preview of her upcoming TV special. The Strahan family has been going through a challenging ordeal for more than a year ever since Isabella first realized she couldn’t walk in a straight line while on a hike with her friends. She was later diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a type of malignant brain tumor just as she was settling into her freshman year at USC. For Michael Strahan, seeing his daughter go through this battle was tough, especially when she told him that she didn’t want to die.

On her 19th birthday, Isabella underwent emergency surgery to remove a golf-ball-sized brain tumor and it was followed by two more surgeries, six weeks of radiation, and four rounds of chemotherapy, as Isabella started her recovery. She was declared cancer-free in July after a successful MRI and is back at USC to pursue a career in journalism.

Now, as Isabella is focused on her recovery, her mom, Jean Muggli, and twin sister, Sophia, recently took a moment to enjoy much-needed downtime. How? The mom and daughter duo decided to catch a basketball game between the Duke Blue Devils and the NC State Wolfpack. Yep, you read that right. The family of the former Giants‘ defensive end decided to take a detour from the NFL world.

Muggli took to Instagram to share a picture of Sophia and her friends from the game with the caption, “I sure loved spending a night with my Sophia watching DUKE vs NC State basketball,” she captioned. Oh, but wait—there’s more! Jean gave us a double treat of the game as she shared another picture writing, “Sophia and friends at Duke basketball game,” she captioned this post of hers. It was a heartwarming image to see them having a good time after what the family had to deal with.

Sophia was the one that Isabella first confided in about her symptoms and her twin sister broke the news to their parents about Isabella’s condition. “I was the one who told our parents first because Isabella called and said she was throwing up blood,” Sophia said.

She decided to stay by her sister’s side and pretty much made it her full-time job to take care of her. “Whatever you’ll go through, I’ll be present. I’ll be your ride and die,” Sophia stated when her sister was first diagnosed with the tumor.

Sophia helped her sister maintain a sense of normalcy, despite the hardship she was going through. She wanted her sister to feel like a typical young adult, especially when it came to how she was being treated. She started with Isabella the latest drama going on with their friends or talk about things happening in the news to make her feel normal.

And Jean? Well, she was always there for her daughter while Isabella was in the hospital, “My mom would sleep in the hospital with me,” Isabella stated about her mother exclusively to PEOPLE on January 22. As she recovered in the hospital and underwent chemotherapy, Isabella documented her journey in a YouTube series. After her last chemo session, she shared a clip where her mom Jean is seen painting her daughter’s toenails as she lay in the hospital bed in an endearing visual.

Top Comment by Richard

I don’t have the money to battle the cancer that is eating away my scalp.

Share your take

Debate

Meanwhile, both Jean and Sophia were left enthralled by the show Cooper Flagg put on for Duke.

NC State took an early lead, leaving Duke fans on edge. Flagg, known for his dynamic play, seemed uncharacteristically subdued in the first half, contributing only five points and two rebounds. Duke trailed 37-33 at halftime.

Then came the second half, which pretty much turned the tables, all thanks to Flagg. He returned to the court with a renewed intensity, scoring 23 points and grabbing five rebounds. The result? Well, after trailing in the first half, the Blue Devils outscored the Wolfpack 41-27 in the final 20 minutes that eventually led to a 74-64 win. Cooper admitted that he was “playing soft and passive” in the first half, before turning on the heat later in the game.

After the game, Duke coach Jon Scheyer said that he had to remind Flagg of doing whatever it takes to get his team on the winning side. “He didn’t have the same pop in the first half. … Finally, at halftime, he just got angry. He just had a chip,” Scheyer said.

As for Isabella, she is all set to open up about her battle with cancer in an upcoming documentary, “Life Interrupted: Isabella Strahan’s Fight to Beat Cancer.”  The documentary is going to feature some hard-hitting moments as Isabell narrates her struggles. It also has interviews with her parents during which they describe how hard it was for them to deal with the news at first.

Michael Strahan reflects on her daughter’s cancer battle

The trailer for Isabella’s documentary dropped and it showcases the emotional struggle her family had to go through as she battled cancer. “The first thing that went through my mind was, ‘This must be a mistake.’ It didn’t seem real,” Michael Strahan says in the trailer.

“As a parent, you’re just scared. She told me at one point, ‘I’ll do whatever I gotta do because I don’t want to die.’ And I was like, wow,” the former Giants DE recalled. Although she is back at USC continuing her studies, she must continue to monitor her health closely with regular check-ups.

Isabella has continued to share her experiences and recovery updates in a series of YouTube vlogs. In the trailer of her documentary, we also see her burst into tears as she talks about how she felt when she received the news. “You don’t really think the worst until you get told the worst,” she says.

Fans will get up close and personal view of the struggles of Isabella and how her family helped her fight back when the documentary drops on ABC at 10 p.m. EST on Wednesday, February 5.