A MAN from Ball Hill, who is still unable to walk properly 13 weeks after having his first AstraZeneca jab, is urging the Government to provide more support to ‘vaccine victims’.
More than three months after receiving his first dose on March 21, Nick Pitcher, 54, still has no sensation from his knees down, while his hands and arms are ‘constantly shaking’.
Despite his ordeal the father-of-two, who used to play cricket for Falkland and football for Cold Ash, Kintbury Reserves, Ramsbury and Hermitage, said he is not an anti-vaxer and didn’t want to put people off having the jab.
However, he said that “while adverse reactions like his were fortunately rare” he wanted to make it clear the Government “needed to do more to help people when things do go wrong”.
Speaking to the NWN, he said: “Before the jab I was very fit. I was going cycling three or four times a week during lockdown and would happily cycle 50 miles in the summer.
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