I am a year younger than your mother. There are really no alternatives for anti-nausea medications. The best prescription one is Zofran. There is another one similar to it in effectiveness, ask your doctor. People have tried other things to augment the meds like peppermint oil drops and such. Nausea (and pain as well) management should be part of the team treatment protocol.

Like Kirk said - she may breeze through this -we all respond differently to treatment.

I didn't, was sick a lot, but still survived. It was probably more disconcerting for my wife than for me.