. You are miles ahead of the game already as you have passion, motivation and real skill.T, I sat at the keyboard thinking a bit about how to respond to your posts. First of all, the sander is a real work of art
I believe planning is a very powerful tool. It also sounds like there is work to do to get your insurance situation sorted, and find a way to channel your skills in a way that will be helpful to others, and also provide a living.
It sounds like you would love teaching. The good news is that colleges are always looking for folks with actual skill to teach. You have a great tool that many others do not in terms of a reference..namely this thread! I have to believe there is a market for the tools you are rebuilding. If the parent company is still around, you might start with contacting them directly to see what transpires. Kijiji is free, and you already have great pics.
I might suggest sitting down and defining where you want changes. Break these down into the top two or three. Populate these 2-3 with action items, timelines, and reward yourself for hitting your goals. I'd also can consider a call to Telehealth and see what free resources they might point you to.
I'm a firm believer that the only difference between success and failure, is your attitude. These challenges always lead to personal learning and growth..and this is a good thing. Reading this entire thread, it's obvious that you have vision, the ability to execute, and a work ethic that prevails despite the pain that you are in. You are also humble enough to ask for help when you need it. These attributes make you very attractive to a prospective employer or customer if that's the direction you are looking to.
The journal here can be impersonal, but also tremendously motivating. You likely don't realize it, but your thread has inspired many...and folks have gotten off their butts after reading your posts. I'm one of them. There is great beauty in the mindfulness that results in patient craft, and excellence. It's everywhere in your shop, the projects, and your writing
), I'm just down the 401. I'll keep you in mind buddy.
If you were my ex MIL, maybe, but I won't hold the whole province against you.
Actually, even my ex MIL wasn't bad at all but I had to take a dig at someone and who doesn't like to hate their ex mother in law. 
Thanks fellow Canucks and good to hear from both of you. Thanks especially to Foster for his very generous offer to store my tools for me.
Thanks so much for the kind words guys. For the most part, I'm able to work as can be seen by what I have done so far. Often a rest is needed just because my back aches a lot or one or both of my feet go numb too much. In the work that I do, it's pretty much all breakdown type service calls. When the customer is down, they need someone now to get it sorted out and running again. So during my multiple times where I was out of commission, they found others to do the work for them. After back at things enough to get by, I wasn't able to do the lifting and bending that I could so I had to turn down some jobs. Eventually they give up on you and find someone that can do it all for them.
I too can't believe the court delays. I thought that okay, 2-3 years was normal but now it's past the three year point by a few months and still nothing. Problem seems to be that once they define the damage, I end up back in the hospital and it has a new scope to it. Then it gets delayed while they request another court date. F'ing frustrating.
I had a nice opportunity the last few days. I'm at the airport in Newfoundland right now about to head home. I sold them a couple dry cleaning machines about 8 years ago and I needed to come out here to train and consult on them. Yay! Some money coming in. What I found was that it really helped my depression to get out and feel useful again. They were very receptive and felt it was really worth having me out.
If only there were more people that need industrial training as well as lean manufacturing, TPS, etc. I like doing that stuff.
I think that "hate:" is a strong word Hugo.