Minister's Wife

The calling of a minister's partner is a tough one, just as is a minister's. I think at the moment of a call I received from a man who announced his suicide. I stayed on the phone with him, at the same time setting a rescue in motion. My late wife Mirjam raced to the scene, and entered his flat with a few others. They found him hanging in the bathroom, blue in the face. He was saved. She was ill for weeks. The shock of it was too much. OBSERVATION: I myself suffered PTSD once, soon after a traumatic visit.