So sorry about your friend herbs, that must be awful. Ds1 has a great friend who is in and out of Great Ormond St and has been forever 
and he and his folk have been in one of their family apartments across the road from the hosp recently - they are not too bad in terms of accomodation, but it's oppressive and depressing.
I have had a bad week, tbh, although I should remember people with sick babies and count my luckies, really. As expected, probably due to me refusing to do the tutoring thing for the Wandsworth test, ds1 got his 3rd choice of secondary which is our local comprehensive, pretty good if you are arty (fabulous art dept), but quite pants if you are sciency, which ds1 is. We do have a choice, insofar as he had already been offered places at private schools. Also, if we move then the local school will still be a bit poor in the subjects he loves most, and will no longer be local. I realise this puts me in with the smug private school mummies, but I am truly not smug about this.
And then on Friday, dh came home from work and said his job was no more. His total arse of a boss (who I would quite like to expose in a newspaper as he is a total c**t and is always in the media bleating about the brilliant company that he's built, except it's by bullying people with more talent than he has) called him on Fri afternoon and said he was let go. 
This is dh's 3rd job loss in 2.5 years and it's devastating. He is flat as a pancake, doubts his over 20 years of experience and hard work, and at the moment feels he has reached the end of the road. And I don't really know how to support him. The last two times I tried to be calm and let him sort himself out, but I found it intensely frustrating as he was (is) very passive, would rather stick needles in his eyes than network, and is one of those people that thinks a job will just plop into his lap. I can't tell you the number of interviews he's had over the last 5 years, for companies he'd kill to work for, where he just hasn't quite nailed it (he gets the interviews, great CV, no problem, but then is always pipped at the post) and he will not, will not admit in any way that this might be something he could work on - interview coaching, get a bit more clued up on ecommerce or general business nous etc. He sits and waits and while I feel incredibly bad for him, I also want to shake him and get him to effing DO SOMETHING. Take a course, call his contacts, get some coaching, do the Hoffman Process, even, anything other than sit on the sofa and watch his family come and go around him.
I am dreading the next few months, and it's a shame, because in one way I am relieved he is out of that job, it was awful for his self-esteem and he's been hell to live with. If we were communicating better, we could approach this as the shake up we need as we have some savings, and we won't starve just yet. But I can feel his walls going up and I don't really know what to do.