I'm having that E18 problem, and my screen went green, and now my lens stopped moving

I was taking pictures with my dads PowerShot A520 Canon Digital Camera and it accidentally fell off my little computer shelf. The lens was bent and I kinda just poked it and it went back in, but when I turned it on the lens started making a flickering noise, and my screen all of a sudden went green, and then it turned off all of a sudden, and when I put the switch to the picture section when I turned it back on, it gave me an E18 error and shut off again. I kept trying to turn it on until I could finally see pictures again and see through the lens, but everything was blurry through the lens, and when I turned it off and turned it back on the E18 error happened again, and my lens completely stopped moving, I dont know what I'm gonna do

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Ah ok

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