Posted on 10/08/2015 6:23:22 PM PDT by SMGFan
The 53-year-old Monmouth University professor is a single mother who is battling breast cancer. She started chemotherapy in August, and lost most of her hair after the first treatment.
Jodry was up for a license renewal at the beginning of October. So when the state Motor Vehicle Commission (formerly the Department of Motor Vehicle) in Freehold forced her to take a new license picture, she decided not to let it go.
"I don't back down when I see an injustice," Jodry said in an interview with NJ Advance Media. "That's what I'm constantly telling my students; you have to walk the walk."
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A government-issued ID photo is supposed to look like the bearer, which is often unflattering regardless of health. There are important things to fuss about; this is not one of them.
If they're demanding new photos, DMV must be swimming in money. Maybe now they can afford to stop issuing paper boat registrations and go back to plasticized documents?
(With so many NJ posters here, how can it be that the state is a liberal Hell on Earth with the only redeeming qualities being the pizza, tomatoes and beaches?)
what injustice?
Shoot. I had to get a new pic and after cancer and chemo it looks God-awful. I’m not quite bald but don’t have very darn much hair! Darn it.
But unfair? Life isn’t fair. Get used to it, the world never will revolve around you.
Yes it is a hard decision, she has lost her hair due to chemotherapy. It will not grow back over night.
At her age, it may never grow back as thick as it was.
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