Can’t Win Me Back

Lily let out a muffled cry.

Her eyes rolled back in her head, her fingers twitched, and foam began to form at her mouth.

Alyssa held her breath.

It looked like an epileptic seizure or a stroke.

Overwhelmed with remorse, Alyssa realized her sharp words had triggered Lily's breakdown and subsequent illness.

If anything happened to Lily because of her, the weight of regret and self- blame would be unbearable.

It would haunt her forever.

1 Alyssa immediately called for a caregiver.

However, the doctor in the nursing home's infirmary lacked expertise.

All they could do was Call for an ambulance.

"Oh, dear heavens...

Lily have such a painful episode pushed the caregiver to

ambulance, the nursing home is too far from the

make it in time!" "Call for an air

to the hospital in time." The caregiver tasked someone with calling for an air ambulance

to move Lily's stiff body from the

lifted Lily's eyelids, gave her basic medical attention,

pounded with

but the dark purple tinge on her tongue and faint red spots on

testing equipment, Alyssa could only

later, a helicopter landed in the nursing home's backyard,

"Mrs.

there!" Alyssa pleaded, her anxiety

Lily onto a stretcher and into

clung to Alyssa's hand, as if it were her

streamed down

to speak, but