Celebrating in the Operating Room.

It happens. And it usually involves food.

Strike that. It ALWAYS involves food.

This week is Hospital Week.

For the first time I can remember Nurses Week and Hospital Week have been separated. With an itty bitty overlap of May 12. May 12 is the day that Nurses Week ended. It traditionally ends on Florence Nightingale’s birthday.

Hospital Week is the week that the American Hospital Association sets aside to celebrate the 24/7 providers of care for their community. A hospital certainly ticks that box.

Food and bragging rights are good for a celebration.

This week we celebrate the workers of the hospitals, including nurses.

At my hospital, the week kicked off with an apple pie contest. Each department that cared to submitted a homemade apple pie. Monday, May 13th is National Apple Pie Day.

That is where the food comes in.

I made the apple pie for the operating room. I used homemade crust. I also peeled, cut, and cooked the apple pie filling. Even though the recipe that I was using said store-bought would be okay. Um, no. Have you met me?

I believe there were 12 apple pies submitted for the contest.

OR won 3rd prize.

There were also cupcakes to feed everyone else.

Because 12 pies are not going to feed the staff that run the 139 beds.

No matter how small the pieces.