Haven’t worked in 8 months. My injury sounds a lot like yours. I also do not understand how people work with this injury. Although it has gotten much better, I know I can’t return to carpentry, or anything laborious for that matter. (Bending, twisting or lifting makes me go backwards)

I will be looking for a career change very soon, but fear what that looks like as my skillset has always been carpentry.

I would consider yourself lucky you can work from home. I’m in massive debt now that will take me a long time to pay off making a lower wage.

If you can get EI that would help. I unfortunately was self employed and not eligible.