have no fear. I tore my right biceps 2 3/4 years ago and my left biceps last november.
for both surgeries i had the same doctor. he made one incision in the bend of the elbow, another along the forearm. He drilled a shallow dip in the bone where the tendon needed to be reattached, then drilled three small shallow holes from the dip through the bone. He then placed the tendon into the dip and used the three shallow holes to run the "expensive fishing line" through to hold the tendon in the dip. He used no screws and that's important. It was out patient surgery. I wore a splint and a sling for the first 6 weeks. After the 1st week they will want you to take your arm out of the sling and use your good arm to slowly work your bad arm through a small range of motion, at the end of six weeks you will be allowed to fully straighten your arm. Long story short ( if you want the full story let me know) you will be back in the gym doing what ever you want or can do after 12 weeks. I was back in the gym squatting lite after 6 weeks, i was benching lite after 10weeks but didn't do any lat pulldowns or deadlifts or biceps curls over 10lbs until the doc said I could, which was at the 12 week period. 6 months post surgery your as healed as your ever gonna get and your chances of re-rupturing the biceps is less than when you tore it. because with my type of repair now there is more tendon contact to the bone than before, because it was placed in a dip the bone and blood healed all around the tendon.