Destruction rarely comes as a sudden, tumultuous event; that is why tornadoes and hurricanes are noteworthy news items. Instead, it is the slow rot of incremental deterioration which represents the commonplace thread of destroying lives, sort of like the metaphorical water torture where the progressive drip of each drop of destructive degeneration defines the dilapidation of deferred degradation (have we now engaged in enough alliteration to satisfy one’s amusement?).
Life itself is complex; filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits must contend with such complexities, and it is often prudent to “separate out” the admixture of various issues in order to arrive at the best decision for each particularized life and circumstances. Like splitting a cluster of atoms, separating a neutron can result in an unexpected implosion if one does not have a clear path and exit strategy, including having full knowledge of the consequences potentially resulting from each action engaged. To the extent possible, one should never begin a bureaucratic process without knowing the resulting impact, whether foreseen or unforeseen.
The decision to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management by the Federal or Postal Worker, whether under FERS or CSRS, can never be taken in a vacuum; the medical condition may have had its inception several years before; the agency may have undergone multiple changes of supervisors, where previous bosses signed off on liberal use of SL, AL & LWOP; where travel was curtailed with a wink-and-a-nod, and a loosely-held network of implicit understandings allowed for continuation in a position despite one’s inability to perform all of the essential elements of one’s job.
Then, one day, in walks a fresh face, and the other side of humanity suddenly disappears. Complaints are whispered, or perhaps even officially filed as an EEO suit. Stress levels are increased, and suddenly medical conditions which were previously managed and quietly maintained flare up into major impediments and life-events bordering on crisis and turmoil.
One must understand, however, that the progressive and incremental deterioration was always in existence; it is precisely because of the slow, almost imperceptible nature of the rotting which was occurring, that few noticed. Federal Disability Retirement is often the most prudent exit strategy in solving the problem of the incrementalism of havoc wrought by years of aggregated difficulties.
The first step in the process of preparing to file a Federal Disability Retirement application, however, is to sift and separate the relevant from the ancillary, without unintentionally splitting the proverbial atom, and to recognize that the crisis point is less of a singular event, and more likely a flashpoint resulting from years of neglect.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
Filed under: Miscellaneous | Tagged: a disability that can get worse in federal employment, attorney representing federal workers for disability throughout the united states, beginning the process or continue with pain and a and progressive deterioration of your health, csrs disability retirement guidance, deteriorating medical condition and the federal employee, federal disability retirement is all about long-term medical recovery and financial planning, fers disability retirement: an option that very often becomes a necessity, filing for disability before medical condition gets worse, getting out of the federal employment train before you collapse with the deterioration of your medical conditions, halting the progressive deterioration of a medical condition often begins with a major change of life style, hoping for a realistic medical recovery by taking the appropriate steps, how to conquer your fears of financial chaos and medical deterioration after an accident or injury in the federal workplace, how wise is to wait for the postal service to take discharge action while your health condition deteriorates?, if the federal worker has a progressively deteriorating illness, just as a dripping faucet can cost hundreds of dollars a year an unattended medical condition can bring long lasting deterioration to your health and well being, living with a deteriorating living condition and the injured postal worker, medical conditions should be seen more than just existential facts if they deteriorate in the long term, opm disability as part of the rehabilitation and healing process, owcp disability retirement, owcp worsening injury condition - what's the recourse?, the federal employee and when it's time for medical recovery and spiritual healing, the functional deterioration of a previously controlled medical condition in federal employment, the incremental effect that stress cause in the lives of federal workers, the injured federal worker and facing the inevitable: time for medical healing, the main problem with a chronic deteriorating medical condition is that most of the times this step is irreversible -- and this is not a laughable matter, the milestone that points toward two roads: the worsening of a medical condition or long-term medical healing, the problem of a continuous deteriorating medical condition is that most of the times this step is irreversible, the risk of physiological deterioration in patients with chronic medical conditions, two choices left for a disabled federal employee: further deterioration of a medical condition or federal disability retirement, unattended injuries or medical conditions reveal their severities through increasing pain as signs of something that can really deteriorate over the long term, USPS disability retirement benefits, when taking some regular time off from your federal job is not enough to stop long-term deterioration of your health, why medical conditions get worse in many postal employees, words without actions and medical healing for the federal employee | Leave a comment »