Hoofbeats: Is It A Horse Or Zebra?
3 min readJan 2, 2021
When you hear hoofbeats the first thing you think about is a horse. Horses are common, so it makes sense, but many other animals have hooves too. In the chronic illness community there are a few illnesses that the members of refer to themselves as zebras. It makes sense, the doctor hears hooves, and assumes the most common thing, ignoring the fact that there are other options, and it may indeed be a zebra.
