How to describe the last three days?

Friday morning I had a team meeting and things did not go all to well (see complex).

That same morning a very good friend rings me to tell me his mother died of cancer. The weird thing was that it started a month ago with psychological symptoms. She was being treated for a depression. Last Thursday her children take her to the hospital, because she was feeling tired and lightheaded. A day later she passed away, because of unnoticed terminal cancer. I cannot for the life of me understand how terminal cancer can go unnoticed until the last day. I went to him and spend Friday and Saturday with him and his family.

Saturday evening he wanted to go back to Nijmegen to get some clothes and spend some time alone. On the way back we decided to take a detour to our friends. Once a year we gather with 20 something people, rent three houses and have a grand time. It was heartwarming to see how much support we got on arriving.