Well...

So I'm not sure whether I agree with Joe's desires or not. You see, on one hand, it would have been so maddening on so many levels for him to suffer without contact with the world. And in the moment that it was granted, everything poured out of him in a ranting, rambling, excruciating passage of probably thousands of 'taps' for him to communicate it through morse code. While its very understandable that this would be his reaction, his pent up words flowing out, on the other hand it seems like he maybe should have held his cards a little closer to be able to say, reassure them that he was mentally sane before asking to be a sideshow act traveling from town to town. As far as what I would want, I couldn't say. I mean the mental beating that being a stump must deliver is something I'm sure I can't even fathom. I'd like to be all pompous and say that all I would want is for my family to know I was living, but I too would struggle with contacting my family just like Joe due to the state I would be in. I think at the initial asking of 'what do you want?' I would say something short and sweet, maybe like, you know, a glass of water. HA, years of silence and insanity to simply ask for a glass of water. Well whatever it would be, I'm sure it would be a hard question for me to answer. I'd most likely end up asking to be on Oprah...I'm sure she would invite me on the show with open arms (and hopefully wallet.)