 Hello and welcome to Rehab at Home with Medell. In this series you'll meet four people who made decisions to get cochlear implants as adults. You'll hear about their experiences and learn how they work towards achieving 12 everyday listening goals with the help of friends and family members. In this episode you'll meet John and his wife Donna and hear about John's early experiences with his cochlear implant. We'll learn how he achieved the first listening goal to wear his audio processor all day, every day. You know from the moment you switch on one of the things that you're challenged to do is to wear it every day and to wear it as long as you can and really one of the weirdest things is actually just remembering to put it on every day wearing it for as long as you can and literally just pushing yourself looking for sounds that are obvious. And for me for example I'd sit on my balcony every morning just with a cup of coffee and listen to birds and listen to things that I literally just haven't heard for decades. I really believe that their quality comes when you can push yourself and practice but also validate yourself in saying okay I need to take a break. And eventually it just gets easier and easier and it becomes habit. Now I actually put it on first thing in the morning, take it off last thing at night you know you can log into the thing with your phone and you can see how many hours a day you average using it how many hours you average streaming it and I even challenge myself just with that little feature making sure that my daily usage is above and beyond what they want because it's telling me that I'm going to get to the next level quicker. Wearing your audio processors all day is a goal that you'll want to try and achieve as quickly as possible but be kind to yourself because listening when you haven't heard for a long time can be tiring. John described how it required being persistent and how keeping track of his wear time using the app motivated him. When you're just starting out try to wear your audio processors all the time at home and make notes about the sounds you hear to share with your hearing professional build up to using your audio processors all day every day and share your progress with your friends and family. Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to the Metal Blog to get all of the latest Rehab at Home videos straight to your inbox.