Another Devastating Disease

It was the summer of '08 when I found out about her illness. She was very reluctant to tell me about any of it, I mean she hid it from me for so long so I couldn't blame her. I lived six hours away from her now so I couldn't keep up with her day to day life anymore.
 I knew something was wrong when she wouldn't want to call me anymore, or she would just hangup randomly when her parents would come into the room. Let me get back to when I found out, when basically my life was shattered. We were sitting in her room and she refused to look at me. she was hiding under her blankets. When I was finally able to remove her blanket she didn't look like herself but of course I would never make that aware to her. I told her how much I missed and loved her when she told me she had Lupus "Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body" I was so utterly confused on what was coming out of her mouth so as I got home that day all I could is research about Lupus.
 I kept looking at webpage after webpage trying to understand exactly what Lupus was but the only thing that seemed simple enough for me to understand was at a webpage https://www.lupus.org/resources/what-is-lupus "In lupus, something goes wrong with the immune system, which is the part of the body that fights off viruses, bacteria, and germs ("foreign invaders," like the flu). Normally our immune systems produce proteins called "antibodies" which protect the body from these invaders."