Where NOT to have your first seizure

Always great to see others that have the same challenges in life as you do, just makes it so much more bearable! I got a rude awakening last week. I'm 29 years old. I've recently (past two-three months) been having "spells" where I just fade away with some strange sensations. (Now, with an educated eye, I can recall a strong sense of deja vu, fear and a bad taste in my mouth.) No passing out, just struggled understanding speech for a few seconds. The two or three times it happened I didn't really know what to make of it, so just ignored it. Unfortunately. Then, last Thursday afternoon, I awoke in hospital, my wife frantic, by my side. I had had some sort of seizure while driving home from work, on the highway. I remember nothing of the incident, but according to eyewitnesses, I just suddenly veered off to one side and ploughed into some concrete barriers at the side of the road at around 80-100km/h or so. I was very fortunate indeed to have a trained paramedic in a car a few hundred metres behind me who stopped and helped me. I spent the night in hospital for observation after it was determined that I had thankfully suffered no major injury due to the accident (the same cannot be said for my car!) A bit more worrying was the fact that there was no apparent explanation for the blackout that caused the accident - EKG, blood pressure and sugar levels all appeared to be normal. A CT scan also didn't raise any eyebrows. One of the only options that remained was epilepsy, so I'm scheduled to go for an EEG later today. Having now done some reading on the symptoms, I'm reasonably convinced that I had some sort of simple partial seizure the first few times, with a complex partial seizure that day in the car. In retrospect, I should have acted on the earlier "seizures", but as someone in adulthood who did not have seizures as a child, I think it's understandable that I didn't even think that it could be epilepsy. (I did however get a pretty serious bang on the head during a cycling accident as a teenager.) Anyway, if you're reading this, chances are that I don't need to tell you to NOT ignore the potential signs of epilepsy! I can only hope that this posting and efforts I hope to make in the future will help raise awareness, to help prevent others from placing themselves at risk.