One option, if you have the means and can collect the mail from your parents' house, is to go ahead and pay their bills yourself -- it's not illegal to pay someone else's bills.
Pulmonary embolism occurs when a clump of material, most often a blood clot, gets wedged into an artery in your lungs. These blood clots most commonly come from the deep veins of your legs. This condition is known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT). In most cases, multiple clots are involved but not necessarily all at once.
Causes. 1  The condition of blood clots in heart can occur when the inner blood vessel walls also known as endothelium get damaged. 2  Rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy can also result in the formation of clots in the heart. 3  People who have undergone a surgery are more prone to suffer from this condition.