Jamie-Lynn Sigler's son leaves hospital after 33 days: 'My brave boy, you are a walking miracle'

Beau Dykstra, the nearly 11-year-old son of actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler and her retired baseball-player husband Cutter Dykstra, has been discharged from a hospital more than a month after being admitted with the rare autoimmune disease acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM).

"After 33 days, we are busting out of here!”  jubilant Jericho native Sigler, 43, wrote Friday on Instagram, accompanying a video of Beau, the elder of the couple’s two children, skipping happily and high-fiving his way down a corridor lined on both sides with cheering hospital personnel, some of them waving multicolored glowsticks.

"My brave boy, you are a walking miracle,” continued the actor, who played daughter Meadow on "The Sopranos” and has herself struggled for years with multiple sclerosis. She had made Beau’s diagnosis public on the Aug. 2 edition of the podcast "MeSsy” that she cohosts with actor and fellow MS sufferer Christina Applegate, and more widely Aug. 6 on Instagram.

"The rest of this story will be Beau’s to tell, if he chooses to one day,” she went on. "Thank you to the INCREDIBLE staff at Dells Children’s” Medical Center in Austin, Texas, where Sigler and her family live. "The way you take care of your patients and the way you guide their families through the process, I just don’t have enough words. I’m in awe of your patience, dedication, and expertise ... But, no offense.. I hope we never see you again.”

Among the many well-wishers posting supportive comment were Joe Pantoliano, who played the recurring role of Ralph Cifaretto on "The Sopranos”; Emmanuelle Chriqui and Jerry Ferrara of HBO’s "Entourage,” in which Sigler played herself in 13 episodes; and Dedee Pfeiffer, with whom Sigler recently starred in a season of the 2020-22 ABC crime drama "Big Sky.”

"Thank you all for the love and prayers,” wrote Sigler. "They worked.”

ADEM, a widespread inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, can cause any of a variety of neurological symptoms such as seizures, weakness of the limbs, vision loss and changes in mental state, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders.