Where There's a Wig There's a Way: Volunteers Channel Clients' Strength to Rehab Wig Room

Want to feel like you can take on the entire planet? Accomplish even the most trying of challenges? Truly make a difference in the world around you? Psh, that's easy.  

Volunteer.

That's what I do. And it's what five others did, too, over the weekend. Guess what? I bet they felt as invincible as I did Saturday after leaving the freshly painted, newly organized and re-designed in . The project was made possible in part by all of YOU, our generous Patch readers.

and voiced the need for donations, you rose to the occasion. 

Roxane DeVos Tyssen donated two beautiful wicker storage towers. Though they didn't arrive in time for our eight-hour rehab project Saturday, we're excited to add them once they're here. 

Oak Park-based business, The Remodeling Station Inc., made sure we had a bucket of "Fresh as Spring" green paint to brighten the room and plenty of painters' tape to get the job done.

Others have said they plan to donate gift cards and various knickknacks, which will surely better our already extraordinary project. 

The wig room is a place for area women to regain their confidence after losing their locks in cancer treatments. Getting fitted for a sassy new head of hair is a fragile yet empowering process—one that because of you, our room now lives up to.

Thanks to a helping hand from Oak Forest Local Editor Lauren Traut, ACS senior client services representative Michelle Turner, both my parents and my (very patient) boyfriend, the wig room is now the sanctuary I originally wished for.

In the poignant words of Lauren, I can only hope that women "leave there feeling every bit as magnificent, special, strong—and beautiful—as they really are."

A heartfelt "Thank you" for everyone's support.

Now, back to taking on the world :)