chronic pain and federal retirement disability

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: How we treat one another

Posted onApril 20, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Separation, distance, objectification and electronic means of communication; the loss of human emotions in the very living of life, where the organic has become equivalent to the android, where the original concept encompassed an admixture of synthetic humanity and the combining of components both human and mechanized – and so the artificial construct that we feared in those novels of sci-fi nightmares has, in fact, been realized. […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Designing a different biography

Posted onApril 4, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Each of us has one, but we know not what it states; for, it is what is written and carried by someone else, and not from ourselves. Yes, yes, we also have an “autobiography”, as well – a narrative of how we see ourselves, in what manner, of what form, in what scintillating and scandalous light. But it is the collective viewpoints of all whom we have encountered that comprise, constitute and in the compendium of the aggregate, tell the story of “that person” – you. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: False Positives

Posted onMarch 17, 2017February 15, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We demand that a “retest” be done, to ensure that the result did not have the opposite effect. It is a linguistic conundrum that the affirmative means its negative; for, in medicine, a “positive” result is the worst of news, whereas in most every other context, it is a welcomed declarative. But because it is a result which is not embraced with delight, […] Read More …