Sorry for the delay. I would love to have some help! Here are a couple of photos. I can enlarge the photo if that would be helpful.

I didn't inspect the bulb carefully before potting. I assumed it was healthy. I thought I had put it in well draining soil.

Would I be removing the brown skin to get to the bulb in order to remove the soft areas? Should I be cutting away some of the roots? Is it too late for this? I would appreciate any help you would be willing to give me.

The roots look healthy. The bulb looks that it should be salvageable, but it is not possble to certain. Sometimes bulbs feel soft because it is dehydrated. Remove all the outer dry bulb layers. If the inner layers are white or greenish, then everything is probably OK. If there are wet, mushy parts that are reddish or brown, that is a problem and should be removed. Either way, the red spots on the outer scales indicates that the bulb has red blotch (Stagonospora) fungus. It is manageable, but those those dried, red, warty areas of the dried tissues contain spores that can spread the fungus to growing leaves under wet conditions. So try to remove all of the red dry parts.

Thank you macroclemys. I am a little nervous to see what I am going to find when I remove all of the outer layers. Whatever way it goes, you have taught me something. Thanks!

OK, so I removed layers. Wow, it was unbelievable to see such red areas. Here are some pictures:

Other side:

I forgot to mention that when the blooms were over, the leaves began to grow. They grew to about 4 or 5 inches and then stopped. They had red areas in them too.

I am inexperienced, but suspect that this bulb had been infected when I bought it. I was aware that good drainage was important, and I am not one for over watering anything. Now I wonder whether I would have seen any indication of disease when I purchased this bulb. Do you peel off the layers before or after purchasing to have a look?

Looks like the fungal Red Blotch. If it were me...and I had some H.Giraffe that looked similar due to getting too wet and poor drainage. I would cut the bulb down to below that red. There may be red inside too. Scrape out what you can. Also clean any red off the basal plate. THEN, soak it in a systemic fungicide for a good long while. After it comes out of the fungicide, I'd dust all the cut surfaces with captan powder. Let it dry...well. Then, plant it in a totally clean pot with fresh soil.

I was rewarded with loads of beautiful blooms from those bulbs this year.

Blooms for next year are deep down in the bulbs. You'll be so happy when you see green leaves.

I am going to attempt to remove all of the red and see what I have left. It's not that big of a bulb and removing the red might reduce it to a very small size. But I don't have anything to lose! Thanks for the encouragement kaboehm.

So I began cutting away the red, but it just doesn't seem like there is an end to it. I may have done a poor job of it too. It's my first time. I think this bulb has little hope of coming back healthy. Don't you think so too?

The little spots are just leftover bits from my cutting.

Decided to throw it out!

Now you have room to buy s'more :-))))

Yes! And now I have learned to inspect my bulbs! No assumptions!

Sorry to hear that you threw out the bulb. There are LOTS of other gorgeous choices out there though... please don't give up on amaryllis... they are sooooo pretty!