Jamie-Lynn Sigler: I Was Terrified My Son Would Die

Since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, Jamie-Lynn Sigler has gotten used to living with pain.

- EILEEN FINAN

But nothing could have prepared her for the anguish she faced last summer when her 11-year-old son Beau was hospitalized with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (or ADEM), a rare, potentially life-threatening autoimmune condition. "Those were the hardest days in my life," says the Sopranos alum, 43.