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A ‘New Lease on Life’ Leads to a New House in the Hamptons

Randa Jaafar was running on a treadmill in her Manhattan apartment one day last April when she collapsed.

Up to that point,Dr. Jaafar, 42, a Cornell-trained anesthesiologist, had felt fit and healthy. She was splitting time between her two homes, in East Hampton, NY, and Manhattan, where she had private practice in pain management. But within hours, she was being prepared for surgery. There was a mass on her heart, her doctors told her, and it was malignant.

“I always knew life was short, but I realized it’s even shorter than I thought,” Dr. Jaafar said. “It started to make me really think about what really matters in my life, and what doesn’t.”

Among the things that started to matter less was her pain-management practice in Midtown Manhattan (she has a second life in Lower Manhattan). Another was her house in East Hampton, which was often in need of repairs.

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I never thought I’d become a mom

Kaley Cuoco gave birth to her daughter in March credit:Bang Showbiz

Kaley Cuoco gave birth to her daughter in March credit:Bang Showbiz

Kaley Cuoco “never thought” she would become a mom.

The 37-year-old actress gave birth to her daughter Matilda in March, and Kaley admits that motherhood has changed her attitude towards the charity and philanthropy work she does.

Kaley – who recently attended a fundraiser in Malibu for the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation, which funds research into the life-threatening skin disease – told ‘Entertainment Tonight’: “You know, I never thought I would be a mom.

“So I see these kids out there and I just can’t imagine if my kid was hurting all the time, you know?

“I felt this way before but obviously, you don’t know until you have one. So totally take it for granted so there’s not another that gets afflicted by this. We just have to do something.”

Kaley’s outlook has been transformed by her

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Is healthy life expectancy in Northern Ireland almost ten years lower than in Ireland?

  • Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is the number of years a person can expect to live in good health: for NI, the current estimate for HLE is around 62 years while, for Ireland, it is 69.4 years
  • However, Northern Ireland uses a different definition of good health, meaning direct comparisons between the two figures are ill-advised
  • Analysis of other HLE estimates indicates the gap between NI and ROI is nowhere near ten years

On 4 March, Irish Times columnist David McWilliams claimed:

“The average person in the Republic can expect to live a healthy life for almost a full decade longer than people in the North. The figure for the North is 61 years and the corresponding one for the Republic is 69.4 years.”

Official figures for Northern Ireland indicate that healthy life expectancy is closer to 62 years, rather than 61, while in the Republic of Ireland healthy life expectancy

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