I felt I was living day the blue sky

Being

diagnosed with prostate cancer was a hammer blow for Perth granddad Willie Auld.

But with six kids, as well as nine grandchildren he wants to see grow up, life couldn’t be more precious for the retired engineer. So, he battled through surgery and gruelling radiotherapy to try and beat the disease.

However, he found himself in such an awful place he started questioning whether it was a route he should have even gone down.

Salvation, though, came in the shape of a Dundee project that finally shone light in the bleakest of tunnels.

It was back in 2013 that Willie first went to see his GP with what seemed to be just a urine infection.

“I was given a PSA test, which was slightly elevated, but it appeared to be related to the infection, nothing more,” said Willie, 67. “I didn’t even have any ongoing symptoms.

“It was monitored for a couple of years until it rose to the extent that I was sent for an MRI scan and then a biopsy.

“In June 2015 I was give the diagnosis. I remember turning to my partner

Morna as we were walking in to see the doctor and saying to her that we were probably going to be told I had prostate cancer.

“Everything was pointing to it, but you always have some hope.

“It was an aggressive form – I

Grandad Willie Auld found a new support centre helped him through his cancer treatment battle