Ssd died with wife's data on it only able to salvage ,mdf file - Save a man's life ... how do I restore / attach / recreate log file - no permissions on new drive

Question

         My wife asked me if I could create a VB program for her - load her data onto SQL Server to test her for some medical exams. Since I have been "playing" with both Visual Studio and SQL for over 10
years, I said sure. Copied her Excel file, transferred the data to SQL and started "playing".
       Play time ended abruptly the other day when my Solid State Drive died. I was only able to salvage the .MDF off the disk. Lost the log file and lost the Excel file. Yes, for all of my databases I had regularly scheduled
backups to another disk. I hadn't set that up for hers yet, thinking that the data was available on another computer altogether.
       No big deal, right? Just get the original Excel file back from the wife("Offsite backup") and reload the data from Excel. Problem ... she deleted the file 2 months ago thinking I had the data, and there is no
recovery as the sectors where that data was located on her hard disk have since been overwritten.
      As to my situation: I told here that things were "going fine" and that I just had a couple more things to recover and we would be back up in business. Thinking that Dangling from a bar over a tank of great whites
with a freshly cut hand might be preferable to telling her that I just fried over 300 hours of her hard to come by, time, by assuming the data was safe.
       From what I can tell, the .MDF file is intact. I have nothing else, and that was attached to a database on what was essentially another computer. Yes, I "Assumed" I had good backups. Yes, I have learned my lesson.
Please save a man's life and help me out.

Answer 1

                   I had my disk die with the only copy of my wife’s medical “Question and Answer”
(Q_And_A)  database on it. She thought it was safe and sound on my computer, and I thought we had an “Off site” backup of the data on hers and hadn’t set up backup for it.
1.)  
The bad things are, only the .mdf file was intact.
2.)  
All of the permissions based on the old copy of Windows 7 and SQL 2005 or 2008 ( I am not sure which the .mdf was created in.) have gone the way of the dodo.
       Bought a new disk. Reloaded windows 7 64 bit. Loaded SQL 2014 (Thought now was a good time to upgrade.) Problem
… so far I have not been able to attach and recreate the log file …
          Just to finish up the data I have, the database was closed properly and is NOT in a read
only state according to file properties. That said, I still don’t have a solution.
 So far I tried these three sets of commands:
CREATE DATABASE
Q_And_A
ON
(FILENAME
=
N'E:\Mikes 128GB\SQL2014\MSSQL12.SQL2014\MSSQL\DATA\Q_And_A.mdf')
FOR
ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG
GO
And this set of commands:
CREATE DATABASE
Q_And_A
ON
FILENAME
=
N'E:\Mikes 128GB\SQL2014\MSSQL12.SQL2014\MSSQL\DATA\Q_And_A.mdf')
FOR
ATTACH
GO
EXEC
sp_attach_single_file_db
@dbname='Q_And_A', @physname=N'E:\Mikes 128GB\SQL2014\MSSQL12.SQL2014\MSSQL\DATA\Q_And_A.mdf'
GO
         So far this is the computer’s reply to everything I have thrown at it. I haven’t told my wife that 600 hours
of her work is inaccessible, and I would really rather not do so. Anything anyone can offer would be great.
File activation failure. The physical file name "E:\Mikes 128GB\SQL2014\MSSQL12.SQL2014\MSSQL\DATA\Q_And_A_log.ldf" may be incorrect.
The log cannot be rebuilt because there were open transactions/users when the database was shutdown, no checkpoint occurred to the database, or the database
was read-only. This error could occur if the transaction log file was manually deleted or lost due to a hardware or environment failure.
Msg 1813, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Could not open new database 'Q_And_A'. CREATE DATABASE is aborted.
          Is there anything else anyone out there can offer as help? My wife has often said that
she doesn’t believe in divorce. But murder she will consider. If she loses 600 hours of her data this could be my last post. I am joking … I think … That said, any help is extremely welcome. Thanks in advance.