Seriously, I got to have surgery???!!!

yep.  That is the official word from the Doctor this morning. He said I definitely torn my tendon and it must be surgically fixed; but then, I knew that already from how it has been feeling. My doctor said he was feeling really guilty about having to tell me that because he says he doesn't want some village to suffer because I'm not going to get back to Honduras at the end of December. So, surgery is scheduled for December 1st.  If all goes well, I will be 3 weeks on crutches, then 3 weeks in a walking cast and then 3 weeks in a removable cast.  That is a WHOLE lot better than the last time I did this. He did say he would be mindful of how he puts it back together and will try to alleviate the recovery time as much as possible.  Course that begs the question, "If I wasn't in a hurry, does that mean he would just slice and stitch without regard to recovery???"