14 stitches or should I say sutures?

Driving up to NY to retrieve a child from a family visit I stopped overnight at a hotel in DE. Very nice place, clean, tidy. At 2am I got out of bed to visit the bathroom. As I was getting back into bed my right calf hit something sticking out of the frame. Yep, a large gash in my leg. Luckily I was wearing pajama bottoms. The bedskirt hid the metal frame. Woke my 12 yr old daughter saying we had to go to the hospital. I called the front desk and said I had cut my leg and the manager said he'd bring bandaids...I said call 911. It was my first and hopefully last ambulance ride. 3 hours later I had been stitched up with black thread...14 stitches. I went back to the hotel and said I needed to stay another night cause I couldn't drive for 24 hours. They comped us the room (not first night) and did an accident report. The manager said the chain would pay for my medical expenses (wish a hawaii vacation was medicinal). Of course this was all during the east coast heatwave last week.

So far the leg is healing and no sign of infection. Funny thing...when we got back to the hotel and was getting some much needed breakfast my daughter looked at me and asked me to promise that we'd never talk about the accident.....I said OK but she hasn't stopped talking about it yet!