Jamie-Lynn Sigler recounts the time she ‘fell apart, terrified’ that her son Beau ‘was going to die’

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11-year-old son Beau was hospitalized with a life-threatening autoimmune condition last summer.“Those were the hardest days I’ve ever had in my entire life,” Sigler, 43, told People. “It was probably the most helpless I’ve ever been.”Last July, “The Sopranos” alum’s “healthy, active” son, whom she shares with husband Cutter Dykstra, had a high fever for a week straight, along with headaches and the inability to urinate. “He was screaming in pain,” she recalled.Beau was admitted to Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, where he was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, which causes inflammation of the central nervous system.“He got worse every day,” Sigler said about the two weeks spent in the hospital. “He lost his ability to walk, and then to talk.”“Then he couldn’t eat or move his mouth,” the podcast host shared before noting he also lost 25 lbs. “There was nothing recognizable about my son.”“My husband and I would look at each other like, ‘Is this really happening?'” Sigler reflected. “Truly, we thought he was going to die.”The mom-of-two stayed at the hospital with Beau for more than a month while Dykstra, 35, was home with their youngest son, Jack, 7.In those times, Sigler drew from her own health experience: living with Multiple Sclerosis for many years.“It was wild to watch my son have neurological issues that mirrored mine in very many ways,” she told the outlet. “My experience understanding the body and inflammation and the brain helped.