Stroke recovery and finding life again

In the process of healing from the destruction from a stroke if the correct therapies are followed after awhile it seems that life has completely returned to normal. The occassional periods of fatigue and exhaustion are easily forgotten and moved past. Only when you let your guard down are the small things noticable, a slight slurring of the speech when overly tired, a bit of dizzeyness when over doing things. Are these signs of a relapse or just the normal aftereffects of stroke that do not ever go away? I do not know, all that I can say for certain is that even with the MRI indicating a spot in my brain the size of a half dollar being dead that life goes on.