It's like being in hospital for us except she doesn't know why and she doesn't understand what's going on.
She doesn't look uncomfortable physically, though it's not long enough to really tell.
It seems overall like a positive evolution!
We use an old school magnet all the time. Unfortunately with people having left stiff in the soil for more than a hundred years it's a never ending story. But even if we are very careful, we sometimes find our own screws or nails ! So stuff left over from the veranda also seems very likely to me.
You live by the sea. If it's like us in Nice, there are quite a few retired old guys passionate about metal detecting on the beach. In Nice I could have put an add for someone to come with a metal detector, likely for free if they get to keep what they find.
Our friend Agostino, who passed a few months ago, was really into this before he was too sick and he found so many old tools at our place, and a knife we had lost.
