Thousands of people in the U.K. have reported suffering serious adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccine Injured and Bereaved U.K. (VIBUK) is a group of individuals injured or bereaved by the Covid vaccines (with medical or coroners reports confirming this) campaigning for a change to the current Government vaccine damage payment scheme (VDPS) to create a bespoke COVID-19 compensation scheme that ensures the adversely affected are appropriately compensated and supported. They also want people similarly affected by the vaccines to know that help is available and for their stories to be heard and not ignored. This is Tony’s story as told by VIBUK and reprinted here. VIBUK can be found on Twitter and contacted here.
Back in March 2021, 58 year-old father of two Anthony Shingler from Northwood was getting on with life enjoying his job as a security manager (admittedly stressful at times, he says, but it came with the job and he learned to live with it). He received a text from his doctors surgery with the date and time for his Covid vaccination, which he duly attended. Little did he know of the consequences that would unfold as he followed the Government advice that the vaccine would “protect yourself and others”.
Tony had his first and only AstraZeneca vaccine on March 5th 2021.
Within the first week following his vaccination he started to feel aches and pains, mostly in his legs. During the second week things were getting worse. He managed with work commitments up to the Friday, the end of his working week, but that Friday morning he was really having trouble walking and developed pins and needles and numbness in his feet and hands.
Tony was sent home by ‘Heath and Safety’ to get checked out by his GP. After ringing the surgery and being told they would contact him the next day, Tony and his wife Nicola decided to attend the local walk-in centre, who assessed him sent and him to hospital A&E. Following assessment, the hospital sent him home, saying he had an allergy. Tony has never had an allergy in his life, so found this odd. The next day he started to decline even further. Nicola called an ambulance which took Tony to hospital again; this time they discharged him with sciatica. He’d had sciatica before, so knew how this felt, which was not what he was experiencing, and what to do to diagnose it, which no one in the hospital had done.
Tony returned home, still not knowing why he was feeling so ill and could hardly walk. That same night he had tremendous lower back pain and by the morning he could hardly walk or breathe and could barely talk. Another ambulance was called; on this occasion they encountered a very abrupt and argumentative female paramedic, who didn’t want to listen to Nicola, which caused avoidable stress. On Tony’s third visit to hospital they finally admitted him after Nicola begged an A&E doctor over the phone to investigate transverse myelitis – she had researched and found this had temporarily halted the AstraZeneca trials. He was put on an assessment ward and monitored.
An MRI scan and lumber puncture revealed high proteins in CSF fluid. After asking the doctor what could cause this, he replied: “Double the amount of proteins leads me to believe the vaccine.” Doctors then examined Tony’s medical records and informed Tony: “We believe after reading thoroughly through your medical records and seeing that you have not suffered any previous viral infections, we’ve come to the conclusion that it is a vaccine related illnesses called GBS or Guillain-Barré Syndrome.”
After five days in the assessment ward and having intravenous immune globulin (IVIG), Tony continued to deteriorate; the condition was now massively affecting his arms and lungs. Tony was assisted to phone home and was told to “say what you’ve got to say, as it may be the last time you see them” – words no one ever wants to hear.
Tony was rushed into ICU and fitted with a tracheotomy and ventilated, along with the insertion of a feeding peg and catheter. Tony pulled through but the battle wasn’t over.
This was the beginning of eight and half months in ICU. During Tony’s stay he had a collapsed lung, pneumonia and MRSA numerous times, all whilst being paralysed from the chin down, unable to talk or move. It was a constant battle which played havoc with his mental well-being, on top of the Guillain-Barré Syndrome which caused burning pain all over his body as nerves throughout had been stripped of their protective cover.
One evening, during the summer of 2021, Tony noticed one of the fire escape doors in ICU was slightly ajar. He didn’t give it a second thought as the nurses did this on a regular basis whilst it was warm weather, and he always needed a fan on next to his bed due to the burning hot sensations he was suffering. Out of nowhere, a man walked in through the fire escape and walked towards his bed. At the foot of his bed he was met by a nurse and Tony heard him say, “You made me do this”. He then proceeded to stick a knife into his own chest and died. Later, a nurse was asked to speak with Tony to find out what he saw; the same nurse also spoke with Nicola, saying there had been an incident and they were concerned about Tony’s well-being. Tony told his wife about it; he didn’t think much about it at the time as he was in so much pain, but looking back at that moment, Tony was very vulnerable, he couldn’t defend himself and this continues to haunt him.
On another occasion, a stand-in nurse entered the room to see if Tony was alright and introduce herself. She checked his tracheotomy and Tony then realised she had placed a plastic cap on it; she didn’t realise but she had blocked his airway. As Tony couldn’t move or talk, panic set in and he quickly became stressed as he couldn’t breathe, but the nurse only realised after she heard him gasping for air. Fortunately, she stayed in the room and hadn’t just walked out not seeing him struggling to breathe. These traumatic events will haunt Tony forever.
IVIG treatment initially had no effect on bringing Tony out of the syndrome, and after some discussion between Nicola and the doctors, plasma exchange was the next treatment to be tried to stop the GBS from travelling above his bottom lip.
After seven and a half months, Tony was transferred to ICU respiratory. He was told by one of the doctors they were looking for a long term respiratory unit for him because he was still ventilated and there’s usually not much recovery of the lungs after that amount of time being ventilated. He still doesn’t know how it happened, but his body started to react to the tracheotomy, he started to cough past it, which the physio said shouldn’t be happening. He had nerve tests on his lungs and eventually, after a lot of hard work by the physios, he finally had the tracheotomy removed and could eat and drink again. After eight months of not tasting anything he says his first taste of hospital food was fantastic – and he never thought he would say that!
It was now November 2021 and he had a date to move to a physio rehab hospital. At this point he was still being hoisted out of bed because of his paralysed state. Eventually he started to twitch his fingers and raise his hand slightly whilst resting his arm on his leg. Over the months this progressed, and he remembers the day the physios wanted him to stand with the help of a standing hoist. The pain in his calf muscles was horrendous, but he says he just kept thinking to himself, “no pain no gain”.
The months went by, the physio kept coming, and over time Tony managed to sit on the edge of the bed then progressed to standing with different lifting equipment and frames.
The day came after 14 months in hospital care for Tony to return home for good, after first going home on the odd days and then returning to hospital. One hiccup was that the local council said it was unable to pay for or fit a stair lift for him, without which doctors said it would be an unsafe discharge, but eventually one was supplied by a charity.
Tony’s discharge date was decided. He was in a ward on his own until two days before his discharge when they admitted two new patients. Unbeknown to Tony the one next to him had Covid and Tony caught it. He had two days of headaches and a temperature but then began recovering, although he had to stay in for a further 10 days in isolation.
Tony finally got home on May 17th 2022. He is still using walking aides to get round the house, getting used to the things he used to be able to do but now can’t.
After eight weeks, Tony walked on the outside patio with his frame, but unfortunately lost his balance and fell to the floor. After waiting an extraordinary 14 hours for an ambulance, which arrived the following day(!), he was taken to hospital again. An X-ray revealed a fractured hip; a metal plate and three screws later he was back in a hospital bed. Luckily, he was home within a week and he is now fully recovered from his fractured hip. However the GBS remains and physio carries on. His hands have suffered some form of osteoporosis and his knuckles have locked and don’t move so he has trouble holding most things – pens, coins, clothing etc. He still has nerve damage in the bottom of his legs and feet, for which he has to wear orthopaedic straps to hold his feet in place as the muscles and nerves are still weak and cause drop foot. He suffers with swelling of the lower limbs due to the insufficient working of the pumps in the legs to remove fluid.
He has progressed to crutches and a wheelchair for longer distances as he gets fatigued really easily. Tony takes one day at a time now and those precious moments he says he embraces more than ever before. Without the support of Nicola and his family he’s sure he would not have made it.
Nicola then had to begin the battle with the Government vaccine damage payment scheme (VDPS), which dragged on for 16 months before he was finally awarded a payout. Tony and Nicola were shocked to learn he wasn’t alone and how many people have been affected by all sorts of adverse reactions after having the vaccine. It infuriates Tony to know how hard Nicola had to fight for any recognition and compensation. This is a battle all VIBUK members are having to fight.
Nicola now plays a huge part in VIBUK, collating medical reports, new findings and news articles for research purposes which aids the group in offering advice, guidance and support. Since Tony was discharged from hospital he has been keen to speak to journalists and media sources about the trauma that he and his family have faced, but has been saddened by how few journalists are willing to tell his story and report on Covid vaccine injuries, though some newspapers, particularly tabloids, have done so. He was glad of the opportunity to appear on a special edition of the Mark Steyn show on GB News, where Mark was joined by fellow presenters Neil Oliver, Dan Wootton and Michelle Dewberry and Sir Christopher Chope MP, to hear members of VIBUK tell their stories.
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The establishment’s reaction.
3 months after Tony got poisoned.
Yes, that was sickening even at the time. Seems surreal now.
Genuinely frightening.
What a brave and courageous man and what a horrendous journey back to some pale semblance of his life. It’s a miracle he’s here judging by how lax the hospital was. People were urged to get these jabs, take a bullet for the team, and this is what happened to them. Most luckier than Tony. My word this makes me angry with all those utterly reprehensible barstewards – Whitty, Valance, Johnson, Hancock and all the rest. This should be front page news. The jabs should cease, the masks ditched and we should have a minute’s silence THIS Remembrance Sunday for all those who fell and who were injured by this demonic toxin. That should be followed by an inquiry, a trial and the jailing of all those who knew the consequences. It is disgraceful.
I hope that the organisation involved manages to override the Government scheme, perhaps by suing for damages in the normal fashion that would happen for any other kind of injury. As an experienced litigant for something else, it appears that the financial compensation on offer is trivial, compared with what damages payments can be if a legal case is successful in a County Court (as long as the culprit is insured and/or capable of paying).
You’d be looking at claims based on the potential loss of income over however many years ahead – quite variable and depending on the individual, not a standard lump sum, but that is what happens, in my experience. Ask a qualified solicitor on this matter – not politicians.
Just the fact that these products were billed as “safe and effective”, and now the proof is widely circulating that they were neither. Then the fact nobody could have given informed consent because they didn’t have all of the data…add to that the massive PsyOp and mandates in certain sectors. I know we can slate people for being naive but I don’t think anybody rocks up for what they are told is a safe vaccine and it crosses their mind they’ll be in this guy’s shoes or dead. I think if anybody reckons that what this man has experienced, and what he’s still enduring, he deserves because it’s his own fault then they really must have a heart of stone and be a callous person indeed.
And yet we now have a population of dupes who refuse to acknowledge even their own injuries because of the shame of having been tricked so easily through marketing and media. I’ve just spent a week staying with a guy on blood thinners after having collapsed out of the blue shortly after his third shot and who three of his friends have recently died suddenly and inexplicably. The answer is starting him in the face but he will not see it.
Yes it really is incredible and beyond comprehension. I cannot fathom what must be going on in their heads. We’ve all heard of the mass formation psychosis on here but I think many have just well and truly lost the plot! Let’s hope these people are now in the minority. Thank the gods for GB News though in continuing to broadcast the truth and give these people a voice. The plight of Tony and the many who’ve also suffered or lost their lives needs to be shouted from the roof tops rather than be ignored or invalidated, their predicaments minimized and written off as “extremely rare”. TPTB just want these people put in a box and shoved out of sight. Sickening.
Still relatively rare, though – particularly extreme examples like this poor man. I suppose that’s a good thing…..
I’m having a walking break at the moment in the Dales, with leisure to browse shop windows, sit in coffee shops and generally overhear conversations; it’s surprising how the booster jabs are a prime topic as people chat in small groups. “I’m getting my 4th; which one are you on?” “You can get your jab at X but you need to book…”
It’s become as routine as getting a haircut. (And almost as frequent!)
No qualms at all; I despair – but it must mean they are not associating the stabs with bad outcomes.
For myself, I just wake in the mornings feeling intensely thankful that I haven’t played Russian Roulette with this muck.
Gawd how absolutely bloody depressing!
Not your walking in the beautiful Dales though, of which I admit to being a tiny bit jel. 
I have had the same experience. Two people telling me they have or are going to have their 4th injection.… one of these has had Covid twice….
I have come to the conclusion that these people love the virtue signalling they think comes with this.
i just suggested to them that they may want to start reading, so they get the ‘informed’ bit of the ‘informed consent’.
Yup, virtue signalling at its best/worst. I replied to Myra above with an experience I had where virtue signalling was going on until I stopped it by saying I didn’t do vaccines.
I expecting conversations to be progressing on to virtue signalling about how to deal with the energy crisis interspersed with where the next holiday destinations will be..
Jeepers tell me about it. All my golfing partners have had umpteen jabs and can’t wait to get their 4th, 5th, 6th or even 7th booster. It’s thoroughly depressing. Mind you I did have to laugh the other day one of them who has emphysema (bless him) has now had “Covid” twice and confided in me that he was wondering whether “the vaccines” really worked! Incredibly though it didn’t stop him from getting his flu jab the following week!!
Extraordinary, quite extraordinary.
It’s the same where I live. However, I’m seeing friends tonight and the vaccine won’t be a topic of conversation as the last time i saw them I told them I didn’t take the vaccine and stopped the conversation totally. The look on one friend’s face was one of shock and disbelief. I’m surprised she’s still willing to see me!
The husband of a friend (he’s in his late 50s, slim and was very fit) had a massive heart attack 3 weeks after having a Pfizer booster (2 x AZ; 1 x Pf). He had no previous heart problems; no health issues at all. But she refuses to consider that it might have been the jab which caused it.
What sick xxxx down scored this comment?
Trolls that don’t want to pay a fiver to delurk and troll. They’re as spineless as they are tight apparently…
Christ, I cannot believe what this poor guy has had to endure! And on top of his own suffering due to the jab he has some other poor, desperate bloke killing himself right by his bed! What were the circumstances leading up to that I wonder, as he obviously had some beef with the hospital? And what sort of nurse puts a cap on somebody’s breathing tube and doesn’t realise it??
At least the doctors did finally admit the “vaccine” was the culprit but only on the third visit! Fobbing him off with diagnoses they’d plucked out of thin air prior to being taken seriously. I’m just aghast at all of his ordeal frankly and I sincerely hope he never sees the inside of a hospital again. May he get the full recovery, and justice, that he so rightly deserves after all of that suffering.
Poor Tony was preyed upon like so many millions of others as part of some revolting project that had nothing whatsoever to do with health. It’s all very well demanding justice for ‘vaccine’ victims but we need a much greater reckoning. What the hell was this actually about and whose idea was it? We have living amongst us the most depraved disgusting criminals the world has ever seen and unless and until they’re brought to justice, no one is safe. Said criminals seem to be now scurrying back under their rocks, knowing the project has failed to bring about the dystopian wet dream they’d envisioned, we cannot let them get away with it – it’s not over until they’re dealt with.
Yep, I pretty well agree with every word of that.
Hear hear!! I’ll help make the gallows.
A moving article. I can’t think of anything original to say here, but feel compelled to say something.
Good luck and God’s Peace to Tony and Nicola, and all like them who have suffered so much.
Tony is f****d because he made a very bad decision.
Compassion isn’t your strong suit, eh?
No, Tony is f****d because, like millions of others, he trusted the GP, the NHS and the government.
And there I was going to put up a comment that, paradoxically enough, vaccine victims like Tony are far more likely to get sympathy from the ‘anti-vaxxers’, ‘granny killers’ and ‘socially irresponsible’ than those who dutifully lined up for the shot and castigated anyone who didn’t.
I still hold to that view.
People have a right to believe that medical authorities are giving honest, unbiased advice. That right has been cynically abused – on a massive scale, by evil people, using the full resources of the State – and the victims deserve sympathy.
Absolutely right. “No Confidence” is a reasonable judgement on the organisations involved at present.
You obviously lack any form of compassion or empathy.
I sincerely hope that I never meet you.
Firstly, I have already said it; Who the hell are these sick fxxkers down scoring these comments and replies? We are truly in a strange place. How can creatures such as these even exist?
You are a bloody hero Anthony as is Nicola!
Why is this and similar not headline news around the ‘civilised’ world?
Over the last 3 years I have felt my once firmly held belief in the innate goodness of my fellow man, gradually disintegrating.
A society that can allow what has happened to Anthony and those like him is no place I want to occupy. It is truly a ‘sick’ society.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
I find myself desperate to share this story with so many of my friends and acquaintances most of whom have been multiple stabbed, and plan on getting their latest ‘top up’ just as soon as possible. But what good would it do? They can’t get unstabbed. It may serve as a deterrent for a while, but mostly they are too far gone.
It would probably end in another lost friend or family member. At the very least, confrontation.
The multi stabbed would either be terrified and slide into complete denial if they haven’t already, and the unstabbed already know the score.
Tragic: from top to bottom and side to side.
Remarkable parallels with a recent documentary on adverse reactions to HPV vaccinations in Denmark (autoimmune reaction stripping the myelin sheath round nerves causing lower limb paralysis). The autoimmune reaction was triggered by the aluminium compound in Merck’s Gardasil 9 which uses a novel aluminium adjuvant (which triggers the immune response to the dead HPV virus).
It is not often (being a crusty old cynic) that I get moved to tears. TBH not sure whether they are tears of sympathy, anger or frustration probably all three. WOW what a hero Tony is and Nicola seems an extraordinary person. But it’s so so wrong that they had to fight and still are every inch of the way. It would be bad enough if this were an isolated incident but it’s not as the MHRA stats show.
SHAME ON YOU WHITTY, VALANCE, HANCOCK, JAVID, RAINE, GPs, THE BBC SHAME ON YOU!!!
What a truly terrible time this man has experienced, and continues to suffer, his life will never be the same again, Through no fault of his, through the fault of the Government, the Valances, Whittys, and the medical profession, and of course the fat cat Pharma, this man was deceived into taking an experimental, unsafe, unfit for purpose product, like much of the population. This man now bares the scars of those people’s hubris, and wheras all of the names mentioned above earn in excess of 120k per year every year, and Astra Zeneca and the other owners of this poison in a syringe get to make multi billions from the pain they inflict, (no liability for them). This Man will if he gets through the hoops be awarded a maximum of 120k for the rest of his life, less than Whitty, Valance etc earn in a year.
This story exemplifies how we are viewed by the Pharma and their bought medical fraternity and politicians view us, we are no more than lab rats, disposable and there to be used as they see fit. When will pay back time come for these people?
What an appalling story. And for all this – AT BEST – Government compensation will be £120,000.
Personally, I think the people who developed and rushed out these jabs without proper testing AND the so-called scientists and politicians who pushed them should be prosecuted – like any other drug dealer.
The NHS is not fit for purpose. It needs to be dismantled and start again. The staff member who almost killed Tony should be sacked or at very least removed to a non safety-critical rôle.
Extremely saddened by this story. Regrettable there are too many like it. All ignored by MSM.
However there is now a clip on tiktok asking this very question. It is stall there today (I just checked)
https://vm.tiktok,com/ZMFj2Gqu2/
sorry but I don’t know how to do the link from my phone to this site.
For all of us on here it is nothing new but I do believe that tiktok is a popular site.
You can’t help wondering how Tony would have fared in hospital without Nicola. We’ve all heard of widows and widowers or single people without family going into hospital and never coming out. The statistics might be worth examining. You need an advocate or your chances drop through the floor.
How many times was he thrown out of A&E as an inconvenience? He doesn’t only need massive compensation but to see every one of those ‘professionals’ who attempted to send him home to die in a courtroom dock.
Reading this horrendous experience so starkly contrasts with the homicidal Quisling messaging of bought pharma-journos and pitiful celebrities.
It’s never going to be over for Tony, or Nicola, or millions across the world who didn’t dodge the bullet. I have nothing but contempt for bulk of the medical profession who saw what was happening and have said and done nothing.
THIS.