Victor,

Just a word of warning--ginger can help control nausea but it also can feel like it burns your mouth if your mouth is sore anyway. You can get it in various forms. There are ginger teas you can get, there is always ginger ale and ginger snap cookies and there is my personal favorite (or it used to be) candied/crystallized ginger. The crystallized ginger is an acquired taste for most people I think and it's too bad that I can't let you acquire mine since ginger would burn my permaenently oversenstitive mouth now. If I were you, I would at least get some ginger ale and maybe some ginger tea.

You'll probably find out more at your "chemo lesson" but when I had my chemo I brought stuff to eat--they had crackers for nausea but they recommended bringing mild stuff to eat throughout the chemo since you get more nauseated when your stomach is totally empty. By the secod chemo I was doing cans of Boost but the first chemo I could still eat normally. The key is nothing too acidic but mild food.

As Christine said, make sure you have filled your prescriptions for anti-nausea drugs beforehand and take them even if you aren't feeling too queasy. Try to clean your bathroom and kitchen thoroughly with antibacterial cleaner before having your first chemo and get your weeding done outside since you are not supposed to weed or do anything where you might get bacteria from the soil or a scrtach from a plant while you are having chemo.

I wish you the best with it and hope that you are one of the people who don't have too many problems with nausea. Come here any time with qestions or just to vent.

Nelie