Crying over spilt milk

Well, we had a huge disaster happen while I was gone in Omaha. Do you remember the picture of all that milk that Angel had pumped over the span of about 4 months? Well, a couple of days ago she went out to the deep freezer to bring another tray in. When she did so, the door didn’t shut all that tightly and popped open, but Angel didn’t realize the freezer door was open until last night. ALL OF THE MILK WAS RUINED, AND HAD TO BE THROWN OUT. I write that in caps because it was a huge disaster; Angel was crying, and still almost cries whenever we talk about it. I almost cried myself. All that work! All those sleepless nights, all for nothing! And now we are worried that Savannah will have to go on formula early. We had planned on just using that milk, and Angel could maybe stop pumping, since we had enough to last until Savannah was older. Now we have one tray of milk left, and Angel is going to have to start pumping every 3 hours again to make her supply come back in. So on top of dealing with Savannah at all hours of the night, she has to pump every 3 hours, or put her on formula, something we have been staunchly against. Argh. We are very distraught over this. It took them a good couple of hours to throw all the milk out. They called every lactation specialist they could get a hold of to see if somehow they could salvage it. But when it has been thawed for 24 hours, it is good for only a day. There was GALLONS of the stuff. All gone.