MORTON, Ill. – A Tazewell County business owner has come up with a way to help kids going through cancer, by getting them to feel more “normal.”
Corrina Dea owns “The Unlimited Stitch” in Morton. She’s been collecting shirts and zippers to create “port shirts” for kids going through chemotherapy.
“This hopefully…being able to wear something fun, wear normal clothes there, is just one less thing they have to worry about,” said Dea, to 25 News.
Dea says the idea came to her as she created one for a family friend.
Another inspiration was her mother, who died from cancer in 2019.
Dea has already collected about 150 shirts she’s making into “port shirts” — that will be given to OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois, Saint Jude, and the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital.
“Being able to sew and use that to help out others is a gift that my mom taught me how to do and has always been a part of me,” said Dea.
Dea previously made more than 2,000 face masks given to schools and hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
