Log Rolling

When I recently went to the emergency room for severe back pain I was given advice upon dismissal as to how to get up and out of bed.

" move your entire body together," the nurse said

"like your body is a log."

I have followed her excellent advice and see the wisdom in her counsel. As I get out of bed now I say aloud,

"roll like a log"

I not only have mastered the log roll out of bed but have also discovered that there are characteristics I posess that are log-like and have been here with me for a long time!

For instance,

When I never heard my babies crying I was sleeping like a log.

When I had all my children in school there were days I sat like a bump on a log.

When I have too much noise going on around me I definatly log out.

As I slowly lose my memory my mind reacts more like a hollow log.

And last as I share the same birthday with honest Abe I guess I might be considered  a Lincoln log.