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.
There are a variety of causes of blood clots. Signs and symptoms of a blood clot depend on the location, and may include: Blood clot in the leg (DVT): Pain, redness, and swelling in the area around the blood clot; Blood clot in the lung (pulmonary embolism): Shortness of breath, chest pain, and rapid pulse and breathing ; Blood clot in the brain (stroke): Loss of vision and speech, and weakness on one side of the body