San Bernardino County Sun | Melissa Pinion-Whitt
SAN BERNARDINO - A sonogram showed one of Emri Sjostrom's kidneys was the size of a pea. The other was barely visible.
If not for nightly dialysis and nourishment from a feeding tube, the 7-month-old Norco boy could have died.
His family finally received a call in June 2010 after waiting more than a year for a kidney donor.
"You need to come now," a nurse told Emri's mother, Soha Sjostrom.
But elation mixed with sadness when Emri's family found out who was donating the kidney.
It came from a 6-year-old San Bernardino boy named Amarion Adams, who was wounded June 13 in a drive-by shooting and died three days later.
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