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Jamie Hawkins

Mum says disabled son will 'starve' unless she can get hold of more chicken nuggets

A mum fears her disabled son will starve unless she gets hold of chicken nuggets, the only food he can eat.

Sharon Morgan, 45, says son John, 20, gets through a bag of frozen nuggets a day because they are the only food he can tolerate.

Wheelchair-bound John suffers from a severe muscle wasting disease - and needs to ensure he eats enough to stay strong.

But his condition means that the battered chicken chunks from Asda are the only food he can eat - and Sharon has struggled to find enough of them in the supermarket.

So the mum from Cardiff issued a plea for help from her fellow shoppers to get hold of the nuggets before she runs out.

John's condition means that the battered chicken chunks from Asda are the only food he can eat (WALES NEWS SERVICE)

She wrote on Facebook : "If anyone can help me please, John has an eating problem and can only eat these from Asda, all he can tolerate.

"I can't get any and John is going to starve otherwise.

"Please if anyone can help..."

Empty shelves in supermarkets due to the coronavirus (AFP via Getty Images)

Several other shoppers then offered to help Sharon by saying they could provide the nuggets or would check next time they visited the supermarket.

Sharon later said: "John is very happy now with thanks to all his friends and followers we have managed to source packets of chicken but will in the very near future need more."

John, who is a 999 superfan of all our emergency services, has collected more than 2,000 emergency service items from around the world.

His collection includes Sheriff badges from the USA, Russian police hats and a blanket with 130 emergency service patches on it.

He's also received parcels and packages from New Zealand and Moldova.

John's dream is to one day make it into the Guinness Book of World Records with his collection.

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