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.

Former MTV VJ Matt Pinfield joyously announced that he is on the road to recovery after suffering a stroke in January. "Guys, I'm alive. I'm recovering and am going to come back swinging," Pinfield, 63,

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.