I can't wait until I can move out of this fucking city. Ugh!!! I swear this has to be the only place where the courts really try and fuck someone over when they have a valid excuse why they can't be at jury duty.

Yesterday I got the form (the one that I sent in saying I can't serve because I'm the only one available to give daytime care to my newborn son) I sent in to the jury people sent back to me along with a request that the medical excuse part be filled out by my doctor. Huh? Since when is providing care for an infant considered to be a medical excuse? I'm seeing Dr. Hill on Monday so I'll talk to her about it then. I know she'll at least put down that I'm still healing from my c-section, but I guess she needs to tell them I'm also the primary caregiver for Gabriel. I'm also going to include a letter and let them know that if they want to call me that's fine, however I have no choice but to bring my son along with me. I know their instructions say that if you have a child they can't come with you, but Gabriel is too young for day care (besides I don't think there are many places that would just take him for a few days and even if there were I wouldn't want to drop him off on his own at this age) and there really isn't anyone else who can watch him. If there was, I wouldn't be doing this alone right now. Rob needs to be at work (hell, he didn't even have any paternity leave time) and our family lives across the country. Hopefully they'll actually understand this and drop it. Things should be interesting if they do call me and I show up with a baby that's not supposed to be there, but there's not much else I can do. I hate this fucking city (for more reasons than this but I don't feel like bitching about those right now) and am more than ready to leave. The sooner the better.

So yeah, today has sucked. I'm worried about the whole jury duty thing. Gabriel spent this morning from 7:45am until around 11am crying and freaking out. He also had some nasty poops (2 of them that filled his diaper up) that made him cry and freak out when he was having them. While I can understand him crying after he poops because it's uncomfortable, he shouldn't be crying like he's in pain when he poops. At his last feeding I switched him back to the Good Start formula. He never freaked out over pooping before he was on the soy formula. We'll see what happens, but I don't think the soy is working out and my Mother's instinct tells me to get him off of it now. Everything went all right at that feeding and he's sleeping now. Not soundly enough for me to shower (though I really need one), but enough for me to be able to be on here because I can be next to him in a few seconds if he starts crying again.

I'm also looking into joining a class action law suit. Looks like Accu-Gen is being sued (the people who did the Baby Gender Mentor DNA test) and since they gave us the false result of "girl" I'd like our money back. My Mom and I are going to try and get it back (they have a 200% money back guarantee or so they say), but no one has yet to be able to get any money back from them, hence the class action. We'll see what happens with that down the road.

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