Power outage while using LR - did I lose all my work?

LR is set to back up when I open it. I spent 8 hours editing and at 6pm there was a power outage. Is there ANY WAY I can recover all of my edits? I'm horrified to hear I can't. Someone please tell me of a magical way to get everything back.
I find it crazy that when I turned my computer back on, Internet Explorer remembered the five websites I had opened and asked me whether I would it should go right back to where I was, but LR seems to not have these abilities?
In addition to fearing I may have just blown 8 hous of work, I've been on hold with the Adobe help line for 168 minutes and counting. I just might go crazy tonight.

You may lose a bit of your work but not all, only the last few operations.
While you work with Lightroom every change you make is saved to the catalog file.
The catalog file by default is in a sub-folder in your pictures folder called Lightroom
(mypictures>lightroom>lightroom 2 catalog) there are also some other sub folders there.
While LR is running it creates a file called "Lightroom 2 catalog.lrcat.lock" which prevents access to the LR Catalog file by other users while you are using it. When LR closes in a normal manner, the .lock file is deleted.
If however LR closes unexpectedly the .lock file will remain and will not allow Lr to open the catalog file when you try to restart.
In this case what you need to do is, with LR closed go to the >my pictures>lightroom> folder and delete the "lightroom 2 catalog.lrcat.lock" file.
Then restart Lightroom.

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