Lost all photos when "upgrade" Lightroom 5.5.  Any help, encouragement, aspirin would be appreciated?

30 day owner of Lightroom.  Lightroom  only shows the 35 photos of the last Keyword selection made prior to the upgrade

First, thank you for your suggestion.
Information:  Unfortunately, all filters were off.  In "keywords", the number indicated (35) I had "keyworded", probably 1500 images.
Another "twist" just found.  All images just found on the external drive (4TB), where they were originally downloaded, so I have the                     images.
Concern:  recovery of: the keywords, flags and star ratings and edits? (oh I hope there is a way)
Thank you

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