"Intravenous contrast?" - no, nothing was injected.
Some news today - on closer inspection one MRI image apparently shows a small area "half the size of a peanut" in the "sensory bulb" which could account for the initial hemiparesthesia (I assume that's the correct term) and the residual small regions of reduced sensation (L thumb, L teeth, L lips). Supposedly an older scanner would not have shown it ... I have a nasty feeling I may wish I had gone somewhere with a lower-resolution scanner!
It's still very early days, but some of the questions that are starting to go through my mind are: could this be a technical error? could it be a misinterpretation of the data? is it a major problem? is the finding likely to lead to permanent loss of medical?
B Rick