This New Doctor Wants to Do an MRI of My Brain

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Yesterday I saw my neurologist's P.A., since he's booked until the next year. (I don't have my next appointment with him until December, and that was scheduled over a month ago.) Anyway she was very nice, although difficult to understand due to her accent. She did her own physical examination and even examined my eyes since my neurologist had made a note that I had experienced a traumatic brain injury at some point and my pupils are different sizes, likely as a result. Anyway she confirmed that there is evidence that I have an old brain injury. She wants to send me for an MRI of my brain to check it for lesions. I have never had an MRI scan of my brain before. Hopefully my insurance will authorize it. I would like to know what's going on in there. The right side of my body, which is the side that always goes numb during my migraines and is the side that went numb when I thought I was having a ministroke in my 20s, is weaker than the left side. I don't have the same sense of feeling in the right side as the left, and when she hit my knee to test my reflexes, it barely moved (after a number of whacks, because it just wasn't moving at all.) It's also my right pupil which is always smaller than the other. I don't know what that all means, but I'm guessing whatever happened when I was younger, must have done damage to the part of my brain that controls the right side of my body. It's interesting how old injuries from your youth come back to haunt you later on in life. I've seen many doctors over the years, and no one ever suggested I had a brain injury. But it makes sense why I am the way I am.