I had been hoarding some bitcoins for a long time. But today I was forced to sell that bitcoin for family needs. Tried a lot but could not manage the required money. Maybe nearing a bull market I sold my bitcoins. I am having a lot of trouble selling this bitcoin I have built up over the years. I am grateful to this bitcoin forum because if it wasn't for this bitcoin forum today I might not have found a solution to my need.
OP you see, emergency is what we can not tell when it will occur. We are not praying for such to happen but we just need to be at alert and prepared at any point in time. Funds whether available or not are meant to be spent. You should be happy you had such savings available to spend to settle the urgent need that came up at that point in time. Bitcoin was initially invented by satoshi to be spent as cash as said by the previous poster so therefore you spending your bitcoin was for a purpose which money would still do.
I have had similar experience months past where I had to do the needful as the pending payment I was expecting did not drop in my account in time and too I can not start initiating the process of cash withdrawal from my other investments so I opted to sell my bitcoin to sort out the emergency at hand with plans of replacing it when my pending credit alert drops in and fortunately enough, it dropped that night and I bought back the volume of bitcoin I sold.
Saving of bitcoin sometimes help too. When the need arises, do the needful to sort out yourself with it.