The injured window cleaner spent about three weeks on a ventilator, unable to speak, and initially his only means of communicating with his family was by touch. "He wanted to touch my face, touch my hair," Rosario Moreno said.
Eventually he reached out and touched one of the nurses. Rosario Moreno said that when she heard about it, she jokingly lectured her husband to keep his hands to himself. He answered in English: "What did I do?"
