Former MTV VJ Matt Pinfield announced this week that he overcame the odds by surviving a stroke he suffered in January and is out of the ICU.

Matt Pinfield is recovering from a stroke and says he intends to “come back swinging,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. The radio DJ and former MTV host told the trade magazine Thursday that he’d been released from intensive care after suffering the stroke in early January and that he was recovering in a Los Angeles rehab center.

"Friends were thinking they were coming to see me for the last time. The doctors never expected me to speak or to walk again," said Pinfield