Outlook - 20160309 - AbandonedAsABabyBecauseOfMyFace by Howard Shulman published on 2016-03-09T22:47:27Z When I was three days old, I contracted an infection that destroyed part of my face. My parents abandoned me in the hospital, and I grew up with several foster families. I talked with Jo Fidgen at BBC Outlook about meeting my birth mother nearly 40 years later. Genre Storytelling