When I edited a PDF in Adobe Pro (MAC) all of my text changes got jumbled up and un-readable.

When I edited a PDF in Adobe Pro (MAC) all of my text changes got jumbled up and unreadable.  I lost hours of work.
The first strange thing that I noticed was that some of the letters were showing up twice so I deleted extra letters and re-saved my work as I went along. 
When I closed the document and opened it up again, ALL of the text was either missing, jumbled, or turned to symbols.
My software is updated.  My version is 11.0.10.  I work on a MAC computer.
Can anyone help me please?  I'm on a deadline and this has caused some real stress.
Thank you.

As PDF is not a word processing file format any word processing like "editing" is not support by PDF (the file format - technology - See ISO 32000-1:2008).
Fortunately Acrobat provides robust touchup capability but "touchup" is far from word processor "editing".
Be well...

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