POQUOSON -- "I don't want to say I did it, because the EMT's got there so quick," Amy Rogers tells 13News. "I remember hearing the ambulance coming, thinking in the back of my mind, 'Please, hurry. Please, hurry. Please, hurry."
Had the mother of three, herself, not hurried, those EMT's as well as doctors at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters believe Alisa Boole might not have been here to celebrate her second birthday. November 15th, Alisa fell into a pool next door to Rogers' home on Poquoson Avenue. Rogers ran to her neighbors', summoned by the screams and crying of Alisa's mother, Kristina Boole.
"After what I seen, I didn't think I'd every see her again," Boole says.
"When I got there," Rogers explains, "the child was laying on the deck, unresponsive, white, pale, and, so, I just started performing CPR on her." She adds, "With her being two, and my girls being two, I was just like, 'Oh, my God! This baby's gonna pass away if somebody doesn't do anything."
Alisa had no pulse when Rogers arrived on the deck, but when the ambulance got there, a pulse was back. After a few days in the hospital, Alisa was home.
"The first night she got up, and she woke up and cried for mama," recalls Boole, "I didn't know if I could breathe or not, and since then, I haven't left her side. I don't want to be apart from her."
Monday night, Poquoson City Council recognized Rogers for helping to save Alisa's life. Coincidentally, the acknowledgment comes the same day Alisa turns two.
"Oh, my goodness," offers Boole. "I owe her the world."
Two-year-old Alisa recognizes Rogers, continually calling out, "Amy!" when she spots her.
"Every time I see her, I just smile, 'cause I'm just like, 'Aw. Wow,'" says Rogers. "I gave birth to three children, but it's almost kind of like I helped, you know, give her a new life."
Rogers and her husband, Jeff, are expecting their fourth child in June.
