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Now I have one more regret to add to a long list of regrets. I wish I hadn't procrastinated so much about rescuing my turtle from my mom's house. Now, when I've finally gotten around to doing it, she's dying. Well, there's a chance she might live, but she has several things wrong with her and now those problems are double teaming her. She has metabolic bone disease (thanks to my mother never purchasing her a sun lamp even though I kept telling her that she absolutley had too), anemia due to her poor living conditions (again thanks to my mom for never buying her a filter), and she has a respiratory infection (again thanks to my mom for never buying her a heater). I've been telling my mom forever that she needed these things, but my mom got some crazy idea in her head that the turtle was happy just the way it was with natural light flitering in through the windows and enough filth to remind it of home. She would never listen to me and I just didn't have the money or time to deal with the situation. The turtle getting an eye infection was what forced my hand, and the money that I had been saving up to get a sugar glider was spent faster than I knew what was happening. Now, with vet bills, I'll be eating ramen for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully though, she'll pull through and make the now nearly $500 I spent on her worth it. I can only hope.