I hope your appointment went well and that you get the rest you deserve.
I too use asl....wait I take that back....mostly finger spell. I have taken courses and have a close friend, whom I don't see that often so text, who is deaf.
For some reason I can't get past full sentences....I tend to try and sign every word I am speaking. I don't know why my brain won't look at this as another language not as English. I am bilingual so I understand the backwards of sentence structure.