Before sending either the camera body or lens to a repair, if you local access to a camera store, take you body in and ask to look at a lens and check that the camera is functioning. It is, then you only need to consider the repairs to the lens which as noted, it may be less expensive to replace it with a used lens.
The lens arrived from KEH today and it’s perfect!! Such a difference from the other lens that I dropped. So glad for the advice I got on this site. I will put the dropped lens for sale on eBay for parts. I see they sell for $100.
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