I had acute cognitive problems on my first infection that were really scary. I remember playing chess with my girlfriend on the 5th day, after losing smell and

I had acute cognitive problems on my first infection that were really scary. I remember playing chess with my girlfriend on the 5th day, after losing smell and taste, and I looked at the board after our openings and... Simply couldn't make sense of how the pieces moved, why I had positioned them the way they were, I couldn't connect past thoughts and make a plan, I simply lost the ability to "connect the dots". It scared me shitless, a huge wave of anxiety of how the fuck I was going to be able to work if that persisted, my whole job is to connect the dots, predict the future, and for a few days that was simply impossible. I cried a lot from that fear. Can't really imagine how it's for someone to have this brain fog persistently, it was so disorienting, sad, and scary.