Hendrick recovering from heart surgery

Lynbrook’s Mayor Bill Hendrick was released from Winthrop University Hospital on June 26 following triple bypass surgery, where doctors repaired one of his heart valves just five days before.

“I am feeling pretty good,” Hendrick told the Herald on June 30. “I got home a couple of days ago, and I am doing better.”

Already, he has gotten back to conducting his mayoral duties, including talking to department heads in the past few days that he has been home, he said. Hendrick also watched as Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the property tax cap bill into law in Lynbrook on June 30.

He is slowly getting back into his daily routine, and taking it easy, he said. Recovering at his home, Hendrick said he is coping and finding things to do, including watching court television shows. He is keeping his leg elevated because doctors also removed a vein there, he added.

As reported in the May 5-11 issue of the Herald, Hendrick was rushed to Winthrop with heart trouble and an infected spleen at the end of April. Doctors monitored him for several weeks, before he was initially released in late May to rest at home. After feeling ill again, he was readmitted back to Winthrop, and underwent surgery, which went well, said Deputy Mayor Alan Beach.

Hendrick is grateful to everyone who prayed, and even greeted him on the street asking about how he was feeling. “All the cards are really heartwarming,” he said. “All the well wishes, and many people taking time to hear about it, the tons of phone calls meant a lot.”

He plans to be back to his center seat at the upcoming village board meeting on July 18.