Bring Someone With You
The most important thing for me at my appointments was and still is to bring someone with me who I trust and who I know can hone in on the information that I may miss. Each appointment brings so much information that your mind can find itself easily overwhelmed and full quicker than you may think. By having a second person there, it makes it easier to have someone else taking notes through the appointment to make sure that you have all the information even when you have become overloaded.