OH MY GOSH! Tell me it isn't so...

My computer crashed. It was fine one night, and the next morning, everything was gone. Dave looked at it before leaving for work and realized it wasn't a quick fix and said he'd look at it when he got home (this was last Thursday). So Thursday night he was working on it when I went to bed and the last thing I remember him telling me was "I think the hard drive is toast." It may seem silly to you that I didn't sleep a wink that night, but let me just tell you...MY LIFE IS ON THAT COMPUTER! Most importantly, 7 years worth of pictures are on that computer. I know, I know...did you back them up somewhere else? Well, I did make discs up to 2006. So technically I've only lost 2 years of pictures. But that is still so much. I now have no pictures of Ava's 1st year of life, except for the ones I'd already printed for her scrapbook (which is a small fraction compared to what I actually snapped.) So Friday Dave took the hard drive into work to test it on a machine there. I feel bad for the pressure I put on him. I was pretty intense in telling him that if he could save anything, save my pictures and my contacts. I stressed over and over and poor guy...it's not like it's his fault. So, long story short...the conclusion he has reached up to this point is this...the hard drive may not be gone after all! He thinks it may just be the control board (?) on the hard drive. So he found another hard drive on ebay (you know, since ours is 7-8 years ancient) and we are waiting for it to arrive. Then he's going to switch out the control board and hopefully my life will still exist as I know it! I know this may seem a little overly dramatic to you, but my pictures mean so much to me and the thought of them being gone just crushes me. So we are waiting. And this has been the longest week of waiting. In the mean time, I've had to use Dave's laptop. I don't like laptops. So, for those of you out there...as of right now, I don't have any of your email addresses, phone numbers, and many addresses. I'm not going to have you send me that info just yet though. Please just know that I haven't completely fallen off the face of the earth and I'm not ignoring you if you've tried to reach me. I'm trying to stay calm and have high hopes that everything is going to be fine and my sweet sweet husband is going to tell me those 3 little magic words that I anticipate hearing...."Yes, everything's here!" Pray for me! (Is it silly that I've never prayed for anything harder in my life?!) I will keep you posted...