The Allen family is hoping to find the ambulance that helped save their son from drowning in Mexico.

ALLEN, Texas – On Friday, boy Allen has a birthday he almost never had after being trapped at the bottom of a resort pool while on vacation with his family.

His parents are now on a mission to find the ER doctor who saved their son’s life but don’t know about it.

Notably, 7-year-old Titus Stoer shows no signs of any brain damage despite spending about seven minutes at the bottom of the pool.

A boy who loves football and hockey is as quick on his feet as he is in words.

“Math is one of my favorite things to do, and so is change,” Titus said.

As Titus prepares to celebrate his 8th birthday, aside from a small scar on his wrist, there is no physical sign that he nearly died on May 25, 2022 while swimming with his mom at a resort hotel in Playa del Carmen. Mexico.

“I asked him to take the last of his diving toys at the bottom of the pool,” recalls Titus’ mother, Angie.

Little did they know that at the bottom of the four-foot-deep pool, the lid had been removed from the drain.

“So I just put my hand in there to try to fish it out, but then my hand got stuck,” Titus recalls.

“I was like, ‘Oh, he’s still downstairs getting his toys out,’ but then his legs kicked weird. Mom’s intuition, I went into the thought that it was normal that he just stayed down for too long, and then I realized that he did not move, – said Angie.

Then she screamed for help. Several men jumped in while others tried to figure out how to turn off the pool equipment.

“It was being pulled by four grown men,” Angie said.

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As an OB/GYN, Angie knew that brain damage could begin as early as three minutes without oxygen.

“After about four or five minutes, I screamed for someone to cut off his arm,” she recalls. “It was very hard to get over someone who hurt one of my children.”

Angie then thinks someone managed to turn off the suction.

“The man was pulling it out, it was grey, it didn’t move. He didn’t breathe. He lay there for about seven minutes,” Angie said. “The person who pulled him out of the water turned out to be a paramedic, so he already started compressions, and I started mouth to mouth.”

The ambulance stayed with them in the ambulance to the hospital, but left soon after.

“[Titus’] pupils are fixed and dilated, which is usually a sign of brain damage. He had seizure activity,” Angie said.

Ster does not know the name of the emergency doctor or where he lives. They just know he had an American accent.

“Before he left, he hugged me and said, ‘I’m sorry, I wish I could do more.’ This person does not know that my son is alive,” said Angie.

A few days later, at the Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Titus spoke for the first time.

“Titus looked up and said I love you daddy,” Angie said. “And that’s about when we realized that he knows who we are, he can talk.”

The medical staff was happy with this outcome.

“She walked in with misty eyes and said, ‘I want you to know that it’s really good to see this because it usually doesn’t end,'” Angie said. The Cook Children’s resuscitator told us that she really believes that the only reason he’s alive is because high-quality CPR was done by the pool.”

“We know that we can celebrate life and many more happy years. We are so grateful and happy to have him here,” said Titus Regan’s father.

A few lessons Stoer says they have learned are that everyone should get CPR certified and make sure people check to see if the pool drain covers are closed.

You can write to Laurie Brown if you have any information about the ambulance that helped save Titus’ life.