Morse Code

One day when Joe is in his hospital room, he feels the presence of a few male visitors. They touched him and set something heavy on his chest. They kissed his temples. Joe figured that they were generals from the war, coming to reward him with a medal. At first, he feels slightly honored, but then he starts to feel very angry. He feels almost cheated. He thinks about how the generals just go around giving medals, and they never fight. They never have to put their lives in danger. The soldiers in the war died and fought for their lives and Joe said that no generals ever got injured in war and he could only think of one who had died.
In his fury, he starts thrashing in his bed, trying to make the bed cover fall off of him so the generals could see his body. While he is thrashing his body, he feels his throat vibrating. Joe knows this is a noise that the other people can hear.
Because Joe has lost all of his senses besides touch, he depends on vibrations to feel footsteps. He realizes that if he can understand what’s going on through receiving vibrations, he can give off vibrations to communicate to others.
Joe starts tapping because he finds a way to communicate to others. He knows Morse code from when he used to type messages to his best friend, Bill Harper, on rainy days. So, he taps his head to Morse code. He gives off the message “SOS” to his nurse whenever she comes in, but she does not understand he is trying to communicate with her.