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Wayland nurse returns from helping people of Haiti

Wayland Town Crier 2/12/10: Wayland nurse returns from helping people of Haiti. After arriving at Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, there wasn’t a lot of time for volunteer nurse Tom Curran-Apse of Wayland to pause and look around. Tending to one patient after another for 20 hours a day was enough to keep a mind occupied. But on the fourth day of his two weeks of service, while in the neighborhood school converted into a makeshift hospital, he glanced at a blackboard that hadn’t been touched since school was held the morning before the earthquake. It was in a room the hospital used to store supplies. What he read scrawled in chalk gave him goose bumps. He later wrote down the phrase into a light blue journal, “Mardi 12 Janvier 2010. Le temps perdu se ne retrouve.” “Time lost can never be retrieved,” translated Curran-Apse. “It’s very prophetic.”