A "Good" Stroke?

I almost died in June, but I didn't.
It was only a stroke.

"If there is anything such as a good stroke, you had a good stroke." my doctor said on Monday, June 10th.
"It was a small one on the left side of your brain. It was not a bleed; it was an ITS, and we caught it early." he continued.
            That sounds so casual, but I was terrified.
           All I could knew about strokes was "You will die. You will never recover. You will be a vegetable."
          Apparently several of the medical staff at the doctor's office, the hospital and my friends had heard those same childhood ideas about strokes. I could tell in their glances of pity.

           

Luckily, all that was wrong.  

I am recovering now, slowly and surely