House arrest for Howie Carr!
But not for long
By Renee Nadeau
Howie Carr sat cuffed to a hospital bed yesterday, a day after undergoing a total hip replacement at Massachusetts General Hospital that has laid up the all-star Herald columnist and WRKO talk-show host for a few weeks.
“I’m moving around too much,” he said, then chuckled. “They want to make sure that I don’t flee, that I don’t go on the lam.”
Carr said he was doing well post-op. While he is expected to be out of commission for about two weeks, he said he’s hopeful he may be up and about before that, back to terrorizing hacks and hoods a bit sooner.
In the meantime, he is keeping himself busy trying to pick the lock on his cuffs and reading the Herald, which is being delivered to his hospital room.
The cards and letters of well-wishing that he’s received are greatly appreciated, he said. But he had his mind on other correspondences.
“Keep dropping those dimes,” he instructed. “I’ll be back to work before you know it.”