Well I had not even been diagnosed when this thread started. I see that some people have never posted again after 2007. My hospital exit story is similar to the one posted here except that it was the Hospital staff who was so eager to discharge me that the nurse came in and started packing my suitcase over my objections that I could do it myself. The nurse was so eager that she forgot to take out my IV tube inserted into the back of my hand and I was so drugged up that I did not notice until we got home. Luckily the nurse sent to show me how to use the feeding bags agreed to take it out when he showed up. Perhaps the nurse wanted me to have a souvenir.
As for funny books, I still favor "Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person "by Miriam Engelberg, but that's because I love comics.