If you had a pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in your lungs [PE]), in the past and still have shortness of breath, even after at least 3 months of anticoagulants (blood thinners), you could develop CTEPH.
But that seemed harder when Lip started dating rich girl Amanda (Nichole Bloom), and it got even more complicated when Mandy moved away from Chicago with her abusive boyfriend. But the entrance of Helene (Sasha Alexander), Lip's professor-turned-lover may just be the biggest complication of them all.
Didila Didi Pickles is Tommy and Dil's beautiful mother. A part-time schoolteacher and married to Stu. It is revealed that she is coulrophobic or afraid of clowns, just like Chuckie Finster. Didi is also a Jewish-Russian American since having 2 Russian Jewish parents and may also have been born in Russia.