John Morgan, 21, from Cardiff, can only eat certain kinds of food as he is suffering from a muscle-wasting condition Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
He is only depending on chicken nuggets of Asda which made it difficult for his mom to find the chunks in the supermarket due to the restrictions put on shoppers amid coronavirus outbreak.
His mom Sharon, from Ely, said: “That’s all he can eat. He has Ensure [a replacement meal drink] to keep him going but he will lose weight when he’s not able to eat.
“He loves food – he loves burgers, sausages, McDonald’s – but he can’t eat them as he chokes. We had the paramedic here about six months ago to help us as he choked on his food, he had it stuck in his throat. He has a bag of them a day, nine in the morning and nine in the evening.”
She said that her son will face starvation unless he can eat chicken nuggets. Sharon faced trouble in finding the only food her son could eat.
She added: “I don’t know what it is, all the other products have the same chicken, there’s chicken strips and chunks but the ones in batter seem to be bought the most because they’re so popular.
“We have to go get them when we can find them and when they deliver them to the supermarket because they are scarce anyway. Everyone has bought them up recently, everyone is stockpiling.”
She decided to ask for help and made an appeal on John’s Facebook page writing, “If anyone can help me please John has an eating problem and can only eat these from Asda, it’s all he can tolerate. I can’t get any and John is going to starve otherwise.”
Sharon has received great support from friends and family ever since her post went viral. Her post caught the attention of Asda also and the brand decided to offer her a year’s supply of the chicken nuggets.
The family is overwhelmed with the kind gesture of Asda and thanked the brand for the same. John’s dad Paul Morgan said: “We have some amazing news regarding John and his chicken nuggets. Thank you so much to Asda they have donated one year’s supply to John absolutely free of charge.
“Thank you so much to everyone who shared the post, donated packets, you have made this all happen.
Sharon said: “It’s just overwhelming. I asked how I could set up payments and they just said ”no, it’s for John.”
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