Hello everyone. I'm so happy I found this site. I hope I'm in the right forum section, I just want to share my story and hopefully male some friends and get some advice from other tripawd parents.

My Doberman Pinscher Onyx became a tripawd today. On December 15th she came in from the yard and i noticed a small lump on her left from wrist joint. I thought she sprained it, her and my Dobe boy Max play rough. I gave it a couple days and kept her as still as possible.

On the 18th I came home to find her paw had swollen up. I took her to the vet and she thought it was a bad sprain. To go the most cost effective route I decided aginst xrays that day. Dr gave her antibiotics and anti inflammatory which helped the paw swelling go down within hours. Dr said if it wasn't better in a week bring her back for xrays.

On January 7th she wasn't any better, and the lump was bigger so back to the Dr we went. Did xrays. We discovered that the bone was the cause of the lump, not soft tissue. Dr recommended a bone biopsy to see what was going on, since you can't tell from the xray. She said it could be anything from a bone infection to bone cancer. That was scary, so she did the biopsy that day.

It was a long week and a half waiting for those results. It came back 'non cancerous reactive bone'. So no cancer was good news. So Dr decided to treat as an infection. We did a broad spectrum antibiotic for 2 weeks. The lump continued to swell. Last friday I took her back for a check up. The lump looked like a goose egg. By Sunday night it looked like an orange and the whole paw was swollen like a balloon. Friday the Dr took blood, she said to just make sure it couldn't be anything else. The results were supposed to be back Saturday but theyre still not back. Dr said she was confident that the blood test wasn't going to show anything new. She said it was non cancerous bone disease. They dont know what causes it, and there's no cure. She did say they see it mostly in growing puppies. She said it has the potential to become cancerous.

So we made the call to go ahead and amputate today, even without the test results back. She was in so much pain and the paw was so swollen. My hyper funny baby was barely walking and not eating or drinking. Just listless. So i had to make that decision. So she had the surgery to remove her left from leg.

She came out of the surgery great and they said that it went really good. Dr said that hopefully she can come home tomorrow, but possibly Wednesday. They are going to send the leg off to state to test it to ensure there is no cancer or anything else. So thats our story. Any advice about making her transition easier is welcome. Any advice about any part of it is welcome.