How about sick kids on bus trips?

DD woke up with a headache yesterday morning. We were scheduled to go with a group to New York for the day. She was in a lot of pain. I gave her Advil, told her that if she was really feeling that bad, maybe we should stay home. She wanted to go--it was just a headache.

Got to the bus, she was feeling lots better. Good decision. Glad we didn't stay home.

Three hours later, about an hour out of NY, she developed a fever. By the time we arrived, she was miserable, aching all over, exhausted, just wanted to go home. She wanted a nice warm bed. Instead we were stuck in the city for the next seven hours and it was chilly and a bit blustery and my guide book didn't have a section on "where to go when your child feels like crap and isn't even interested in the stuffed animals at FAO Schwartz so you know she's REALLY sick."

She did perk up for a little bit in the mid-afternoon, but mostly it was just seven hours of suffering. And I don't feel any better knowing we probably exposed the whole bus to this thing (although she kept entirely to herself, didn't interact with any of the other kids, and stayed seated the whole time, so that minimized exposure).

Sarah