Kansas artist battles health care system as disease advances
April 17, 2019
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — In a small back room of his Kansas City, Kansas, art studio, Michael Brantley pointed out a painting stretching across one wall.
It was a bird's-eye view of a man playing a trumpet that Brantley said was once part of a temporary exhibit at the American Jazz Museum. A potential big break.
"Then I ended up getting sick, and I can't do nothing with it," Brantley said one recent morning.
The last five years of Brantley's life have been an on-again, off-again battle with sarcoidosis, an inflammatory condition that has sapped his strength, caused his hands to tighten with ar...
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