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I'm glad to hear that your stroke wasn't fatal and didn't seem to cause much permanent damage, flstf.
Being Canadian, I can't tell you much about the medical costs associated with a stroke aside from one very large figure.
Two years ago my younger brother (he was 21 at the time) had a near-fatal brain aneurysm. An appointment with a specialist in Phoenix was set up a few months later, and just after a successful 18 hour operation to rewire his brain to bypass the aneurysm, he suffered three severe strokes within the span of an hour. Somehow he survived, but still has extremely limited use of the right side of his body, his recovery is slow, frustrating and painful, but steady. From what our family has been told by both Canadian and American doctors, the cost of his treatment, medication and therapy so far would have cost us between $750,000 and $1,000,000, had the Canadian government not covered our medical costs.
In the waiting room of the hospital, my Mom and I spoke to an older couple who had lost everything trying to pay for their son's medical costs after his second stroke.
It seems to me that $4,000 is an extraordinarily low price to pay to have at least a little insight into what caused your stroke and maybe, possibly prevent you from having another one.
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