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.
Certain diseases and conditions are more likely to cause clots to form in specific areas of the body. Conditions that can trigger excessive blood clotting in the heart and brain: 1  Atherosclerosis is a disease in which a waxy substance called plaque builds up inside your arteries.