This is a request I hoped, in so many ways, I wouldn't have to make, but maybe you can help Lisa Today.
Despite many months of struggling through setbacks and complications, Lisa has continued to show us she's with us, aware of her condition and wants to reclaim her life. Unfortunately, the degree of her brain injury has limited her ability to communicate to only blinks and slight nods. We have had to come to accept that Lisa will not be able to return to her career as a prosecutor for Homeland Security's Operation Predator. Therefore, Richard submitted the necessary paperwork for Lisa to take disability retirement from federal service.
The delay of this heartbreaking decision for Richard and Lisa, was with the desperate hope for her to be able to make a significant recovery, consequently it has put them in a bind. We learned from the Office of Personnel Management in Washington recently that there probably will be 120-days to process, review and approve Lisa’s retirement application. You see, they won't even assign Lisa's case for 30 days; then it will take up to an additional 90 more days before it's approved. Lisa's leave time will run out sometime in January. When that happens well, to be blunt, Richard and Lisa are a two paycheck family and can't make it-in their home-on just Richard’s salary. This situation they are in is more than an ordinary threat as Lisa is quickly approaching the day she will come home to her residence in Oro Valley.
Therefore, I am asking you, if you or your colleagues in federal service who may have some surplus annual leave time, or are in a "use it or lose it" situation before the end-of-the-year help us by donating some or all of your surplus to Lisa. Those of you who can, and will help, please contact your personnel office to complete a "voluntary leave transfer program" (VLTP) form for Lisa Wintory, DHS/ICE and have the personnel office certify the transfer and fax the form to:
Nina Candol: (949) 425-4919
If you are willing and able to help and want more information about Lisa, please take a look at her BLOG site: http://lisalatest.blogspot.com or contact me at: mlwintory@msn.com or call me at 520-744-4408.
Please accept our best wishes for the New Year!
Michael L. Wintory
mlwintory@msn.com
An additional note, Lisa’s Sheltie, Maggie lost her valiant fight with lymphoma today, among other things Cancer is nasty business, and none of us are taking it real well right now
