(KCCI/Radio Iowa) – According to the administrator of a social media page set-up to help coordinate the search for a missing Waterloo man, he has been found alive, but a report on his condition was not immediately available. KCRG-TV reports Mike Jensen had been found and that family was going to where he is, but no further details were released. The 46-year-old former Wartburg College professor left Ravenwood Specialty Care in Waterloo on Monday night. His family said he climbed out of an unlocked window.

Jensen had a brain tumor and now suffers from dementia. Jensen’s wife, Jen, says her husband was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2012. “He’s had diminished capacity since 2016,” Jen Jansen says. “Mostly from the brain cancer and complications from the treatments.”  Jensen says the past few months have been extremely difficult on the family. Jensen and the couple’s three daughters, one of whom just graduated from Waverly-Shell Rock High School, haven’t been able to visit Michael because pandemic restrictions. “He’s been in a nursing home for two years with cooperative care,” Jensen says. “… To be quite honest, with COVID, we’ve been at the end of our rope. It had been 121 days on Monday since I’ve seen him and been able to hug him.”

Nearly 50 volunteers showed up in Janesville Thursday to help look for him and they spent the morning searching property between Cedar Falls and Waverly before severe weather ended the effort around noon. Mitchell says she’s extremely grateful for the support her family has received from friends and strangers.  “When I drove in the parking lot, I had to a minute to have a good cry,” Jensen says. “It’s overwhelming to see … a parking lot full of volunteers, who are taking their summer day.”

Firefighters and first-responders went door-to-door in Janesville Thursday night. The search for Jensen resumed this (Friday) morning.