ennifer Parker felt like she was getting her life back.

Most of the symptoms of her mycotoxicosis, or mold poisoning, that forced the 31-year-old Somers Point resident to live in a tent in her parents' backyard last summer were going away. Living outside 24 hours a day had been the only way she could avoid the debilitating symptoms of her disease until a new drug had allowed her to move inside by late fall.

But in December, her insurance company - Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey - informed her that it would no longer pay for the medicine she credits for saving her life.

That was less than three months into a treatment that was supposed to last twice as long.

And now, just days after receiving the last of her daily doses, Parker's symptoms are starting to reappear.

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