Last Updated on March 8, 2019 by FERS Disability Attorney
At the outset, you realize that something is wrong with the caption. Not being a noun, the space following demands the question, “The dismal what?” Adjectives require it; we all learned about them in grade school (if that is even taught, anymore) about grammar, and how they “modify” the noun. It cannot stand alone. It is a peculiar adjective, isn’t it? It is one that cannot modify a noun except in a negative way.
Others can be modifiers but can themselves become altered by the mere fact of relational influence. For example, one may refer to the “beautiful ugliness” of a landscape, and understand by it that the contrast between the two modifies one another. But with the adjective “dismal’, it seems never to work. Whatever noun it stands beside; whatever word that it is meant to modify; in whichever grammatical form or content — it stands alone is a haunting sense of the dismal — of down, depressed and disturbed.
It is like the medical condition that attaches and refuses to separate; of an embrace that will not let go, a hug that cannot be unraveled; and a sense that cannot be shaken.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suffer from a medical condition, the adjective of “dismal” often precedes the realization that one’s career must be modified in order to attend to one’s medical condition. Work takes up a tremendous amount of one’s time, energy and strength of daily endurance, and obtaining a FERS Disability Retirement annuity is often required just so that one’s focus can be redirected in order to attend to one’s health.
The process of preparing, formulating and filing, then waiting upon, a Federal Disability Retirement application is a daunting one, and you may want to consult with an attorney who specializes in Federal Disability Retirement Law, lest the dismal turn into a morass of a bureaucratic nightmare which fails to modify the noun that all applicants yearn for: The approval.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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