Yeah. Brain fog is what we call it. It will come and go. When it's around you need to be easy on yourself... as with any symptomology with any illness. It doesn't do any good to try and fight through it.
Compensation and compromise. You will become very good at ingenious ways to work around things, I hope.
For example, in that case you spoke of... a digital picture of the letters etc...emailed to him. OR he has to call you back or let you call him if/when the brain clears.
I sure hope he isn't angry with you. You have no reason to be angry with yourself either, angry at the disease, yeah I guess. I think anger isn't good for most ppl.
How frustrating this situation was for you! I'm sure that the harder you tried, the worse it became.