Can word documents completely disappear??

Hello everyone! I just had the weirdest problem!
First of all: I am currently working on a big paper, and saving regularly, in order not to loose anything. My doc is also saved in Google Drive.
On Sunday I worked normally on my paper and saved it. On Monday I worked on it and wrote an additional page for it. Also, I made an image from data in Excel, and then added it to my text.
Today I open my folder to check my document and the first weird thing that I noticed was that the "Date Modified" didn't say yesterday, but it had Sunday's date. The version from Monday isn't there/completely missing, the image I created in Excel is in my images folder, so this activity is there, but the newest word doc version isn't!!!
One day's work is completely gone! I also checked recent files, but all files in there only show changes from 2 days before (Sunday) or from today (Tuesday), and NOTHING yesterday (Monday). No activtity at all. It's as if I had not added any text at all yesterday... if somebody knows anything, help would be really appreciated. Thanks!

No I did not, I thought saving it to Google Drive is enough. I never thought this could happen . Apparentely I am not the only one with this problem: https://discussions.apple.com/message/21363118#21363118 I really hope this gets resolved in the future ... Thanks anyway for the fast reply!

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