jury duty anyone?

I got a letter in the mail a few months ago, called the nurse at the GI, and she said absolutley no problem us giving you a jury duty letter, call anytime you need one. I ended up not even having to go to the courthouse at all after phoning in the next week, but feel like they couldn't have denied the note had I gone.

I just asked my Doc for a note and that was that! Also she mentioned in the note, that beside the UC/Crohn's, she felt it unsafe for me to be in a small room with so many people, as I'm on a number of immuno suppressants.

I think it would be very easy to get removed from the jury pool with UC.Then you wouldn't get called in at all. Due the unpredictable nature of the disease and how really disruptive and miserable it can make your day..might be a good idea to opt out of jury duty. Not sure if you could opt out of serious long trials because of a medical condition if you wanted to serve. The do use alternate jurors so I suppose you could bow out for medical reasons.

When I get a form from the city calling me for JD, there's a space for "reasons unable to serve." Active ulcerative colitis (sadly) has always been an honest reason that kept me from worrying about having to run out in the middle of a trial!