A FORMER Dalgety Bay man has flown home to Tunisia for the last time.

Mouldi Chalbi is just 38 but has been given weeks to live after he was diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable cancer.

He moved to Scotland from Tunisia in 2017 where he lived in Dalgety Bay and, more recently, Kinross, with his wife, Lorraine.

After receiving the shocking news that nothing more could be done to prolong Mouldi's life, his family began to fundraise to fulfil his last wishes, to travel back home for one last time.

Moira Stobie, Mouldi's sister-in-law, told the Press: “It’s just been a big whirlwind.

“We can’t believe the generosity of people; we just cannot believe it.”

So far, the GoFundMe has raised a massive £5,870 which allowed him to fly home on May 16.

Any further funds will pay for the end-of-life treatments he will undergo in Tunisia. Mouldi has now begun palliative radiotherapy in the hope that it will ease his symptoms and make him more comfortable.

Moira continued: “We’re just shocked, we only found out on 4th March that he had cancer and then it is just such an aggressive cancer that in the space of two months it’s gone from being in his lungs, lymph nodes and trachea and now it’s in his pancreas and his liver.

“The cancer is squeezing his trachea, yet his oxygen levels are 98 per cent. We don’t understand but it’s squeezing his trachea and they said that is what is going to take his life.

“He’s only 38 and if you look at him, he looks as fit as a fiddle. Paracetamol is the only thing he has taken, he just says he isn’t in pain, he is the strongest person I have ever met.

"He obviously is in serious pain but he won’t say."

His diagnosis has come as a shock to his whole family.

When medics found the cancer, he was told that it was incurable but that there were treatments that they could offer.

Mouldi received immunotherapy treatment and there were hopes that he would be able to undergo a surgery to relieve the pressure on his trachea.

There was also the option for him to receive the palliative radiotherapy in Scotland that he is now having in Tunisia.

Moira said: "They did say that they could give him radiotherapy but the odds were 50/50 and it could actually kill him.

“As soon as they said that, we knew that if he got radiotherapy there was no way he could travel on a flight.

"They were supposed to operate and put in a stent to help him breathe better but there was only one surgeon that could do it, over in Edinburgh at the Royal Infirmary, and he refused, he said: ‘I’m not doing it'; it would be like signing his death certificate. There’s no way, it would kill him, it’s too close to his heart.’

"They brought my sister in and just told them there was nothing they could do.

"When we found out on 4th March, they told him it was too far gone and all they could offer was immunotherapy.

"He had two lots of that and when he was meant to go for the third one, they called up and said they wanted to see him.

“They had done a CT scan the week before and I knew then that something wasn't right.

"The doctors said they would do that emergency operation over in Edinburgh but they heard nothing else until the Thursday night. They called and said, 'Can you come in on Friday morning, we need to talk to you'.

“That was when she was told he had weeks to live and that really, they could give him radiotherapy, but it wasn’t going to prolong his life. It wasn’t going to give him extra time.

"When he found out he said, ‘Please, please I need to go home.’ He pleaded with Lorraine, and she said whatever you want we will get you. Somehow, we will get you it.

“I think we are still in shock because we’ve had nothing to focus on other than getting him where he wants to be.

“He’s there now but it’s still a worry because we just don’t know when but at least we got him what he wanted, we got him that.”

Mouldi is now in Tunisia with his family and his wife, Lorraine. They celebrated their sixth anniversary on Monday.

Moira said: “The strength and courage that he has is just immense."

The family hope that the money raised from the GoFundMe page will allow Mouldi to be comfortable in his final days. The page to donate can be found here.