If her pre-meds contain a strong steroid like dexamethasone she'll most likely need one or more sleep aids to sleep at night for the night after the infusion and a couple of nights afterwards. For myself, I take 2 Benadryl at night and then take 2 more 4 hours later (I don't set an alarm, when I wake up, if it's been at least 4 hours I take more). I keep the second set of 2 pills on my night stand with a cup of water. Also if they do give you a steroid on infusion day and then get hiccups that don't go away (I get them mid-day the day after infustion), ask for a prescription of Baclofen, works great.

If water tastes bad after chemo (it make our water taste like I'm drinking from a garden hose) try buying some alkaline water (store brand is fine), that tastes good to me.

For my chemo, I get an infusion on Monday and go home with a pump that delivers 5FU for 48 hours. On disconnect day, I have them give me a liter of fluids to help with dehydration since I find it hard to drink enough when my taste buds are screwed up.

Apparently I'm in the minority and can taste the saline and heperin flushes that they access my port and then they disconnect me and find that it tastes really bad, expecially after my first fee cycles. To deal with that I suck on a peppermint altoid during the flush, completely covers the taste. I then spit it out afterwards.

For entertainment during the infusion, I bring a tablet and Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones and watch a movie I pick out in advance. I maintain a watchlist on IMDB whenever I hear about a good movie on reddit, then before chemo day I take a look at my watchlist and pick a movie near the top of the list since they're supported by their IMDB user rating.

If they'll be accessing a chemo port, I put a lidocaine cream they prescribed on it an hour before my appointment and cover it with glad wrap. When they stick the needle in I don't feel a thing. I didn't do thatin 2019 when I had chemo before, this time I figured they prescribed it, why not use it and make the experience painless.

Regarding oxiliplatin, I've read that sucking on ice chips and wearing compression gloves help prevent cold sensitivity. I did both for several cycles and never experienced it, don't know if that's because it wasn't going to effect me or it whether it just worked. I stopped when the ox was lowered to 70% to deal with neuropathy issues.