Make Sure You Bring Cough Drops on the Plane

Now this was a draconian airline pilot. I guess he thought she had tuberculosis or something.

The flight attendants gave her water, and a doctor on the flight said
she would be OK to make the 10-hour flight. But the captain returned the
aircraft to the gate to drop off the girl and one of her teachers.

Rachel said she started crying when the captain told her to leave.
She and the teacher finally made it home the next day.