From Blindness to Sight: How Cataract Surgery Changed Rex’s Life [VIDEO]

A close up of Rex on the operating table at Schreiber School of Veterinary Medicine, surrounded by veterinary students and Dr. Mancuso, prepping for surgery.

For 11-year-old goldendoodle Rex, losing his vision happened quickly. “One day he could see and the next day he was bumping into walls and couldn’t figure out how to go down the steps,” his owner Jessica DiBacco remembers. Rex had developed cataracts in both eyes after becoming diabetic, leaving him nearly blind. Before long, the […]