not so ordinary night

just got out of the shower, ( i'm a night person, fyi, so i am awake at night and do almost all my chores at night when i'm off) at around 0230am central time, i told nikki to stop playing and she and her friend need to go to sleep at this time of the hour. nevertheless, because a friend is sleeping over at our house and it was a friday night, she decided to still play until....i heard her crying at the top of her voice ( as in really shouting, her uvula vibrating her voice trembling) "mommy! mommy! my hand, my hand! (that's what i thought i heard while changing in the closet). to my surprise, she was bleeding from her forehead. i did not have anything in hand except my towel still wrapped around me, just to stop the bleeding, i then took her head and pushed her bleeding forehead to my towel...then my nervous husband, seeing her daughter bleeding, followed my instructions deligently to get a cloth which i then used to press on nikki's forehead and assessed the laceration. it was about 5cm in length and 3cm deep. thus, we ran to ED and have her laceration stitched up. as i was assessing the laceration, i was thinking i could make an improvised steri-stip, but made my better nursing judgement that my daughter needed stitches on that laceration. we waited for almost 2hrs and a half in ED just for the stitches to be done. anyway, it was a different night for my 9 yr. old....for my husband as well....and for me as a mom.