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Medical Retirement from the U.S. Postal Service and other Federal Agencies: The State of Solitude

Posted onMay 20, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Having a medical condition necessarily results in a state of solitude. While others can empathize, no one else can fully comprehend the totality of the experiential turmoil and trauma, the emotional, physical and psychological toll upon the diminished personhood and the daily struggle endured. It is a solitary state of existence, and all the more so when individuals, agencies, friends, family and acquaintances fail to take the time to understand. […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: It’s a Dog’s Life

Posted onFebruary 20, 2015February 12, 2020AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Animals are entities we encounter as subjects in a world of objects, but with whom we can have relationships and interactions beyond mere utility; the affection of a dog or similar pet, their importance in one’s life — these are beyond measurable quantification of significance. But there is a difference in the “other” species; of the immediacy of need, the lack of concern for tomorrow, and happiness determined by thoughts of future occurrences or predicted circumstances. […] Read More …

Federal Employees Disability Retirement Systems: The Quarantined Mind

Posted onJanuary 24, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

From early childhood, the necessity of imposing constraints and conformity produces the positive effect of a well-ordered society. But corollary and unforeseen consequences often occur, as in the quashing of creativity and mindsets which step outside of the proverbial “box”. The problem with people talking about thinking “outside of the box” is that such a thought process itself constitutes nothing more than mundane conventional wisdom. Those who have considered thoughts beyond the artifice of social concordance […]
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USPS & OPM Federal Employee Disability Retirement: One of Those Days

Posted onAugust 11, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

There are “those days”, so characterized because of the micro-calamities which, in their cumulative impact, disproportionately reveal a compendium of aggregated irritants amounting in totality to a forgetful epoch of one’s life. By contrast, a medical condition of an insidious nature, progressively deteriorating, chronic in persistence and debilitating in severity, magnifies tenfold — nay, a hundred, a thousand, […] Read More …