I agree that the author's mom did a horrible thing to him by not getting vaccinated. But the whooping cough and tetanus are on him -- he describes being aware o

I agree that the author's mom did a horrible thing to him by not getting vaccinated. But the whooping cough and tetanus are on him -- he describes being aware of the importance and need for vaccines well before he contracted those diseases. And even after contracting whooping cough, he still failed to get his tetanus vaccine, which would have saved him from his painful and life-threatening case of tetanus he contracted soon afterwards.