FERS Disability: federal employee medical retirement

Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Content

September 21, 2017

What do we mean when we distinguish between “content” as opposed to “context”? Are the two always distinguishable, and if so, are there any features or characteristics that make inseparability a potential difficulty? We have all heard the famous phrase from King’s speech about being judged by the “content” of one’s character, as opposed to the “color” of one’s skin – a deviation of sorts from the more customary reference to the distinction made between appearance and reality, […]

Federal Disability Retirement: The dead, the dying and youth

June 29, 2017

Have you ever seen a flower arrangement that weaves together deadwood with bright and colorful summer explosions? They tell us of that which reflects modernity: The dead are forgotten in the background; the sick and dying are mere echoes fading quickly into a distant past; and it is only the vigorous who dominate and forcefully remain in the forefront. How a society coordinates the interaction between the triad of life’s complex ingredients reveals the extent of its inner soul and character. […]

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: The elixir of life

June 17, 2017

Is the substance we expunge necessarily the opposite of the positive? Does the mere fact of expiation denote that which is unwanted, or merely no longer of utility? In ancient times, an elixir was considered to be a substance of great desirability; it possessed multiple meanings, including a reference to that substance which was used in alchemy to alter base-metals into the gleaming riches of the natural order found deep beneath the chasms of the earth – gold. […]

Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Means to an end

April 21, 2017

There is a difference, with a real distinction, between utilizing a process as a means to an end, as opposed to using people for the same purpose. Such a concept should be a “given” – that logical posit which is unquestionably true, without the likelihood of being controverted, and generally accepted as a foundational principle in a caring society and community. […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: How we treat one another

April 20, 2017

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 […]

Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Loyalties unrequited

April 1, 2017

Like the letter expressing undying love, returned without a forwarding address and stamped with a vengeance with ink smudges unable to erase. Of course, such imagery is likely to be a puzzle and an unknown quantity for most, as no one writes letters, anymore. What would be its modern equivalent? An email returned, a text message ignored, or a Facebook request blocked? Loyalties, on the other hand, are a funny thing; if left unspoken and implicitly assumed, each party to the “agreement” of loyalty can walk about with differing perspectives and alternative understandings. […]

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Of human frailty

March 31, 2017

Youth is the folly that disbelieves; middle age, of a progressive realization that the past does not lie, but teaches us of existent graveyards we may have passed unnoticed just yesterday, with question suddenly more prominent about mortality, the afterlife, and whether it is possible to cheat illness, death or debilitation from its awaiting wages. Do we call out to the gods in a moment of desperation, ready to make a Faustus-like contract, or buy into the cosmetic youth-movement with lotions, fitness regimens and, in the end, surgical alterations to cheat the fates of time? Of human frailty, there is no avoidance. […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement Benefits: Fatal Regrets

March 28, 2017

There are those that allow for reflection, constructive application and corrective adjustments that remain as a positive goal to achieve. Then, there are such acts that become entrenched, atrophy with time, and perform activities of futile repetition unresolved and unattainable. Regrets are what we all carry about in the deep recesses of unstated and unresolved sub-consciousness; fatal regrets are those haunting clouds that follow without being seen, cling without capacity to decapitate, and progressively dominate because we are unable to let go. […]

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: False Positives

March 17, 2017

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, we ask that it be further verified in the event that the “positive” is a false one, and we want it instead to not be a true one, and thus ask for a retest in order to see whether the second one will result in a true negative, which is the opposite of a true positive in hopes that the first positive result is a false one. […]

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: False Promises

March 15, 2017

Is it an oxymoron? If it is made, how can it be negated by untruth; for, if it is a nothingness at the outset which compels null and void the substantive content of the thing itself, how can it purport to be what it is while at the same time creating an abyss of meaninglessness? A promise cannot be false if it is to have the very meaning of a promise; and yet, we know that there exists such falsity of posited assurances, if not proposed by dishonest individuals and con-men, then at least by unintentional or otherwise mistaken pillars of vain malfeasance. […]