Ipod and itunes completly erased please help

Okay so i just got home from being in the hospital and i plugged in my ipod to DL some new stuff. It said updating ipod do not disconnect. After it was done i went to the lbrary page and there was nothing there. I looked in my ipod and everything is completly gone! I had over 8k songs and i have no idea what happened .
PLEASE this is a cry for help someone please help me or just tell me what happened. I should be able to re-DL most of my songs but i am worried it will happen again.

FIrst try recreating the library http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313

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