How do I stop my photos from disappearing?

LG G3 - I took many photos over the weekend. While I was looking at the gallery Sunday night, the gallery images started suddenly showing with gray bars on photos, then suddenly turning into a question mark icon like the phone had no idea what the file was.
the phone has always worked fine, and I have never had any problems before. I have not installed any new updates or apps recently. I have no third party photo manager - just use the gallery and associated apps that came with the phone. I do not use Google+.
Every time I look at the phone, more of my photos are replaced with the ? icon. If I take a new photo, I can look at the photo within the camera and see it fine. I can open the gallery and see the photo fine. Then suddenly, the gray bar will appear on the image and it will change to the ? icon.
I have done the following troubleshooting:
1. rebooted my phone.
2. Shutdown the phone, and let it sit off for 2 minutes, then restarted the phone.
3. Shutdown the phone, took out the battery, and let it sit for 2 minutes, then restarted the phone.
4. unmounted the SD card, shutdown the phone, took out the SD card. replaced the SD card and restarted the phone.
5. verified that the camera is storing photos to the SD card
6. Changed the camera storage to memory, and back to SD card.
Any suggestions on how to stop my phone from being confused and realize that the files it seems to not understand are actually the photos I took with the camera on the device, and that it really did understand all of the photos at one time?
I do not have the ability to plug my microSD card into my PC. My PC does not have a micro slot and I do not currently have the ability to go buy an adapter
If your advice is anything like "should have backed up the phone" your condescending input is not needed. This is not a backup issue, this is an issue with the phone forgetting what photos are.

    Oh goodess hammer1959! Let's see what's going on with your phone. I really apppreciate all the details you've provided so far. Please try clearing cache in the camera to see if this gets resolved. When completed, please restart phone. http://vz.to/1s5uICj
Thank you,
VanessaS_VZW
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