‘I’ve been told I have maybe a year’: Huntsville community rallies around man in need of heart transplant | News [Video]

The clock is ticking for a Huntsville man in need of a heart transplant. Doctors say he could have just one year to live.

Folks in the community are holding onto hope. Those closest to Corey Steger held a cook-out fundraiser in his honor Saturday.

Decades ago, doctors diagnosed Steger with lupus. It’s a chronic illness that happens when your immune system attacks healthy tissues and organs.

Steger says that disease grew aggressive and the medications he took, wore down his heart.

“I’ve been told I have maybe a year,” Steger said. “I’m in the process of trying to get on the list for a heart transplant.”

Steger has congestive heart failure, and time is of the essence.

“I just have to take it day-by-day,” Steger explained. “It’s hard.”

That’s why folks in the community …