I had gotten it up and running again, but last night the power went out.
I'm stuck in the same place where I get a kernal panic on every kernal selection.
Perhaps you should consider an UPS? (don't take this in the wrong way)
blk errors are always a bad sign. Do you have the flash plugin ON? Or is the SSD beeing trimmed?
OR
Can you try to clone your ssd to an USB stick and run from there? (don't know much about GRUB and you'll probably need to change some configuration)