Author Sarah Bowie on health struggles: ‘It felt like a second chance, the green light to live again’

Sarah Bowie went from being told she had cancer, to then discovering her tumour was benign. She tells Helen O’Callaghan how this experience changed her life for the better.

I’ve always had lower back pain – I had surgery on a prolapsed disc at a young age. But in summer 2020 back pain was grinding me down.

It was during covid so by the time I got an MRI the pain had subsided. The scan showed a shadow. I told myself this happens all the time.