Extensive testing then revealed that it was actually MS and not Lyme.

“And that’s what I did.

It was the hardest journey I’d ever put myself on.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler smiling

I struggled silently and ‘covered’ it up all the time.”

“Living with MS, I can’t do everything with my boys all the time.

Sigler found herself in a state of disarray in the aftermath, which lasted a while.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler posing at an event

“But what I learned from India was I had an inability to escape it.

I had to sit in it.

I would scream in pillows, I would cry to girlfriends …

Jamie-Lynn Sigler posing in overalls

I reached out, I sat by myself, I got a therapist.

“Beau has what we believe to be, ADEM.

To say this has been hard, is an understatement, and I’ve never felt more broken.”

Jamie-Lynn Sigler posing with her son and husband

ADEM stands for acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, an extremely rare neurological disorder that be contracted after a simple virus.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler posing at an event

Jamie-Lynn Sigler posing at an event