Recovery advocate
Drew Baske
Drew spent more than 30 years as a firefighter and paramedic. After his stroke, he found new ways to keep teaching and helping others through volunteering and peer support.
Finding a new way to serve
Drew’s career combined emergency response with teaching future paramedics and EMTs. A stroke in 2017 changed his vision and made it harder to drive and juggle tasks the way he used to.
At first, he was hesitant to join a stroke support group. There he found people who understood what he was going through, and he began sharing his own experience with others.
He went on to volunteer in a hospital imaging department and continued teaching. Both gave him ways to use his experience and help people through unfamiliar situations.
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