IPhone 4S stuck in recovery mode after IOS 6.0 update

My iphone 4S is stuck in recovery mode. I connected to iTunes earlier today to update the IOS to 6.0 and that's when it got stuck.  From reading phones stuck in recovery mode, it seems like it is happening with this software update.  Why didn't they tell us there would be an issue and pull the update.
I have an appt at the Genius desk later today.  My question is this; I have phone messages on my phone,   I listed to messages that ATT saves on their server and the older ones on my phone are not in their current 20 list.  When my phone is restores, will all of the phone messages still be on my  phone?  How about all of the photos I took this week?  Last time I synched was more than a week ago.
The phone messages are very important to me. I can't loose them. My son died this summer and 2 of the messages are from him.

momofjeremy wrote:
The phone messages are very important to me. I can't loose them. My son died this summer and 2 of the messages are from him.
If your phone is in recovery mode, all data on the phone are gone.  If your messages were not previously backed up, then they are forever gone.

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