jerry said 
Hi there, welcome to Tripawds! 

It's so hard to know what this spot could be. Really the only way is to have a vet look at it and possibly aspirate the lump to see if its cancer. I know it's scary but information is power, and at least you'll know what you're dealing with, if only to come up with the correct pain medication dosages and stuff.

Good luck. Post some pics when you can, Honey sounds like a super dog. I hope she feels better.

jerry said 
Hi there, welcome to Tripawds! 

It's so hard to know what this spot could be. Really the only way is to have a vet look at it and possibly aspirate the lump to see if its cancer. I know it's scary but information is power, and at least you'll know what you're dealing with, if only to come up with the correct pain medication dosages and stuff.

Good luck. Post some pics when you can, Honey sounds like a super dog. I hope she feels better.

Thank you to the first poster 'admin', and jerry. 

It isn't a seroma , she did have that though in the first month or so at the bottom side where her leg used to be, and that did worry me and my dad, but the vet said it was just fluid and it is normal.

I am not sure 100 percent which type of cancer Honey had, but I would put my money on bone cancer because of the fact that it was hard, like her bones are.. the same hardness, and it was basically at her joint area and grew very big unfortunately. I say unfortunately because, well obviously it caused her more pain as it got bigger, and because we knew what it was and we didn't know if it would keep growing , or if it would cause her a lot of pain, or what would happen we when did bring her to the vet.. we just kept putting it off until we HAD to bring her . We pretty much just didn't want to have to have her have three legs, and have to see her that way .. though she is perfectly fine with the three. I also say unfortunately because perhaps if we had brought her earlier to get it amputated and made that decision, whatever cancer might not have spread as much as it may or may not have.

We do know we should bring her to the vet, but it isn't my choice.. I can say to do it, but it is really my dad's choice because he is just deathly afraid to bring her and what the vet may say, and she not come home this time :/ . But I do agree with what you said, to bring her to see what it is and at least put her on the right combination of medication so that it won't barely bother her (Which it really doesn't now, she doesn't cry or whine really at all, the only time she does is when she wants either A. Attention , B. Food, C. Water, or D. To go outside . 

She doesn't make any crying/whining sounds from pain , but when she sleeps I can tell she is in some discomfort and I don't know what from.. I don't know if it is from her arthritis.. her having to lay on her one leg where that lump thing is, may it be something or some muscle or not, I can't tell. But I do know she has discomfort because she ALWAYS wants to be with me, and when she isn't with me and I'm sleeping she will always come back the hall and lay outside my door waiting for me. Then at night if my door is closed, she will do the same thing.  So I have been just getting her and carrying her and put her on my bed and have her lay with me while im on my laptop on the bed, or if I am on my computer at my desk. I can tell her discomfort because she will fall asleep for an hour or a few.. then wake up if something wakes her up, or she will herself, then move her positioning and then go back to sleep, and do that a few times. Then she will usually start panting, make whining sounds because she wants something.. so I give her  attention, then I bring her out to have water and go outside and food if there is any..... then I walk back to my room so she can lay in the living room so I can sleep without being constantly woken up, but she always, always, always walks back to me and my room :p . So I can't say no to her, so I bring her back in.  Then after a while if she needs to go out of my room again and I need to sleep, I will close my door so she will go sleep with my dad or in the living room.. but nope :p She comes right back the hall, lays by my door and I always hear her and know she is there because she will sometimes lightly hit her head on my door from moving around or her body when she lays down haha.

But that is how I know she is in SOME type of discomfort... but I don't know what exactly the discomfort is from, like I said I don't know if it could be from arthritis ( I mean, she is 11) , or the three legs, or how her body is a little different shapen from the new posture and walking she needs to use, or that lump thing she has to lay on. But she doesn't cry, she isn't in pain or anything, I can tell that because I know what she is like when she is in pain because of when she had four legs and the tumor, that was what she sounds like in pain. 

She really is the best dog I could ever imagine, ever.. I have never met another person's dog that is anywhere close to how she is. She has NEVER bitten anyone in her whole 11 years, she ALWAYS needs attention and will keep climbing all over you and fight you for attention and you to pet her. She ALWAYS needs to be around people, and she is the nicest and most lovable dog ever. All of my friends love her and care about her so much that they were even really upset hearing about her leg amputated and her pain, they ask if she is okay and all of that . 

Also, I don't know when exactly this lump thingy appeared, whatever it may be, but after her first 3 weeks, she was even swimming in the pool again! She loves the pool more than anything, besides me, and she was still able to swim and wanted to swim only 3 weeks after the amputation and had no trouble at all. She basically is really tough and a fighter and will fight through anything and act as if she doesn't have 3 legs and do what she would normally do... even if she ends up slipping or slightly hurting herself doing it.. she will keep doing it over and over because she doesn't want to be a dog that has 3 legs, and doesn't act like one :p

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Anyways, on the note of the vet thing. It is just really hard to actually bring her, even if he would just put her on the right medicaiton and everything, just because the fact that if the vet told us that it is infact another tumor/cancer..... it would be too devastating of news for me and my dad because we would know that she may not be here much longer.. and I can't begin to imagine how I will feel when that day comes. My dad asked if I even wanted to be there when/if that ever had to happen, put her down, and I said "I really don't want to be there and see that happen... but I NEED to and HAVE to be there.. for her. I want me, and me petting her to be the last thing....... she sees and thinks, so she can go happily :'(  . I mean, how can  I see the dog that is like my sister, that has loved me since the day we got her 11 years ago, and I loved her 11 years ago.. and been with me through my whole teenage life into my adult life (20..about to be 21) , and see her go from life to lifeless ?????

I will take a picture and put it up here soon, and I appreciate the concerns and help very much!

jerry said
You and Honey obviously have a very special connection, and Honey knows that you are in tune with whatever is going on in her body and mind. From what you're describing it does sound like it could be pain, but because she's already been very clingy, it might be something else entirely. If you've been away from home more than usual, maybe that's it?

You share an incredibly special bond, so I know how hard it must be that you aren't in control of the final decision about seeing the vet. All you can do is try to talk to your Dad and maybe tell him that we've seen many folks here panic about a new lump on their cancer hero Tripawd, only to find out that it was a benign tumor and could be left alone. It just takes a quick poke with a needle to find out, and is generally about $60 depending on where you live. I know it's hard to convince folks though, so don't be angry or blame your dad if he doesn't. He also sounds like he cares a lot for her, and it's very hard to cope with the impending loss of a beloved animal, and we all cope differently.

In the meantime, try not to think of the worst case scenario. We always say, prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Yes, at some point you will need to decide whether or not you will be there when she takes her last breath (and based on how you describe your relationship, it sounds like it would be very beneficial to both of you if you were there .  . we can talk about this at some point, but rest assured that the final moments aren't as horrible as you might imagine. If you choose not to, that's OK too, we are all different in how we deal with end of life decisions).

For now, talk to your Dad, or even send him here if he wants someone to talk to, we're here to help any way we can. Good luck and please keep us posted.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my entire post and respond.. and basically got everything down perfectly and understood it perfectly . 

I will use your advice and tell my Dad about there being many people on here with those and it is benign . I forgot to mention that there is a new medication that the vet was telling my dad about.. it is somethign that works against cancer and could basically stop the cancer from growing anymore or possibly/maybe make it go into remission ? Maybe you know or heard about this. I am fairly sure we are going to put her on that and do everything we can .

I also forgot to mention.. I don't understand this, because .. like I said I know what she is like in pain from when she had the four legs still, and she isn't acting like that now. Maybe a tiny bit now and again, nothing serious.. but that is to be expected with her age and other issues such as arthritis and having to walk on 3 legs and all of that stuff. But I noticed her eyes are kinda watery a decent amount of the time, and I dont know why. She isn't whining or anything when they are, and she has those eye booger things and I always whipe them off of her eyes and her younger brother Balto.. Siberian Husky who is 4 now, sometimes goes over by her and licks her face and eyes, seemingly doing that also :p.

And yes, the final decision thing.. I don't know I am just a very deep thinking type person, and dealing with loss is something I haven't had to do besides with a good friend of mine who died in a car accident a month ago, he was only 21. But that wasn't as close as I am with her, and in movies.. if a dog dies or something, I get upset or angry.. depending on how it happened, and if it is a person.. i don't care. I just have much more empathy for dogs and especially Honey. Then with my thinking of what is death, what happens, she won't be here anymore.. all of that, it makes it worse. It will just be so hard for me to just be there and have to watch her just go away.... 

Then come home, and come home each day and she will never be there again.. and every single day when I have gotten home from somewhere, the first thing I yell when I opened the door and got inside is "Honeyyy!!!!" and yell her name and baltos name after and see her and go "Hiiii Honey girl! How are you?! How are you?!? Goood?! Are you doing good?! Thats gooood, I love you!" and I'll say that all enthusiastically and when I say hi to my mom I just go "hi" .  and I've done that for the past like 11 years.