A Sacramento teenager with a fatal blood disease has died despite her mother's unsuccessful efforts to find a bone morrow match in China.
Katie Cramer, 16, was adopted at 14 months of age from China. She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a fatal blood disease, in 2006.
She died Thursday at home, her mother Sherrie Cramer said Sunday.
"Since April when she knew she was relapsing, we were battling this," her mother said. "But the last two-and-a-half months she felt pain and sickness and isolation."
The family began searching for a bone marrow donor after Katie's diagnosis four years ago.
