Far Outside the Ordinary: A Memoir

Far Outside the Ordinary: A Memoir by Elrod, Prissy. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780825307836.

"Please, anyone who likes nuanced, emotional, beautiful storytelling, look into Prissys book, Far Outside the Ordinary" John Tinker: Emmy Award Winner, Television producer and writer for CBS, ABC, NBC: Chicago Hope, The Practice, Judging Amy and Hallmarks original series Chesapeake Shores. If anybody had told Prissy, a Southern housewife, she would one day be driving around town with a stoned, drunk man named Willie in her backseat while she begged--no, ordered--him into her house for the night, she would have told them they were nuts. But it happened. Far Outside the Ordinary follows a personal journey of life interrupted by one of lifes greatest fears...cancer. An emotionally honest account it chronicles the period in Prissys life when, during a routine physical, her fifty-year-old husband is given less than a year to live. Never one to take no for an answer, she is determined to save her husband. She exhausts Western lifesaving treatments. When they fail, she puts faith in prayer and Eastern alternative treatments- from medicine men to an FDA-indicted doctor. Her optimistic nature infuses her with hope and a positive outcome. Despite all her efforts, Boones health deteriorates. Prissy calls in help: black caregivers move into her home in Tallahassee, Florida, and work around the clock to aid her family. Soon, Prissy finds herself a spectator in her own home, observing events far outside the boundaries of her once ordinary life. This is a story of people from different cultures and how love and respect for each others differences grew from the work of supporting a man at the end of his life. A memoir which shares a universal message: living through tragedy,resurrecting from despair, and rediscovering love, joy and happiness. Prissy opens her heart and reveals the unfolding of her once ordinary life with raw truth and brave honesty. It is told with candor, emotion, and a sprinkle of humor. Sometimes, unanswered prayers are answered, just in a different way.