# Why do you Yo?

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**Category:** General Yo-Yo\
**Created:** [March 12, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-do-you-yo/316620 "2020-03-12T14:09:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-do-you-yo/316620/32 "2020-03-19T05:53:12Z")

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Here’s my story about how yoyoing has benefitted me.

> [@General Yoyo Thoughts](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/general-yoyo-thoughts/307204/176):
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> I take real issue with this, for a very personal reason. A few years ago I had a valve in my heart fail due to a birth defect, and my lungs filled full of blood. It was initially misdiagnosed as pneumonia, and I wound up in a coma for several days with blood O2 as low as 30%. I was fortunate and they figured out what was wrong with me before I was gone, stopped the bleeding and they repaired the valve. I didn’t wake up after until all this was done, talk about confused. When I woke up I co…

As an update I have continued to improve to the point where I believe my coordination and equilibrium are better than they were before this incident occured.

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