I had my second MRI and initial consultation at Emory.  They have a good reputation.  I sought out a second opinion at the Mayo Clinic as I highly respect the acoustic neuroma team they have there.  The Mayo Clinic offers a video consultation at no charge -- so it does not hurt to touch base with them.  In my case, the doctors at Mayo completely agreed with what the doctor at Emory told me.  And that gave me a lot of comfort knowing everyone was in harmony.

Best wishes for your daughter as she continues along this journey!
Don

Hello my friend, I am aware this is a scary time for you. Hopefully you have had your surgery by now and everything is going as well as expected. That being said I know this is a whole new world for you and much adjusting to your new life and normal if indeed it has resulted in the right sided facial paralysis as expected. I also had a large/aggressive AN that resulted in right sided facial paralysis and right sided deafness. Long story short, in the end I had to have had to have: 1 original surgery, followed by a 2nd because of aggressive regrowth, followed by 28 rounds of max dose radiation, unfortunately that did not do it as what was originally thought to be the normal “swelling process/dying” of remaining tumor tissue ended up being regrown once again requiring a 3rd surgery. Although this is an extremely rare event and I do wish you all the best, I completely understand there will be new normals for you. Some things I have learned that may be helpful to you knowing sooner than I did was 1- eye care: lacrilube type stuff, punctal plugs, eye weight ect all unfortunately did not work for me personally but what is called a “ mini scleral lense” was a game changer. In combination with other things in regards to eye care but the mini scleral was an important one! If there is anything I could possibly answer for you or any issues I could help with I am more than happy to help if I can. Just an fyi, this journey started in 2014, it has been 10 yrs, I am an LPN by trade and have gotten myself back to work part time(because of chouce options at my particular hospital) with minor adjustments, a little bit more difficulty than I realized but not too an extent of being undoable👍🏻I am also from Canada, this site just seemed to have more information options than the Canadian version. All the best to you my friend, you’ve got this 🙌

I bikejor, so preferably most of my biking is done in cold temps, the colder the better. I wear ski goggles now all the time when bikejoring to keep my eyes moist and unfrozen.

I cannot speak about your issues.  For me the MRI is done, hour at most, with contrast.  I then get in the car and drive 5 miles down to road to the doctor's office and we review them.  I am not affected at all from the MRI.

They put the contrast dye into your arm, sort of like drawing blood. 
there's no recovery from the MRI. you're just done and leave. (at least that was my experience.)