When I started NED Vision, the mission was simple — and personal. NED stands for No Evidence of Disease. It’s the phrase oncologists use when scans come back clean. But for those of us who have walked alongside someone fighting cancer, those three letters mean something deeper than a medical report. They mean: we made it through another round.
Erika, my first wife, fought cancer for ten years. And in those ten years I learned things about hope, about suffering, and about the human need to know that someone else understands — things I could never have learned any other way. One of the most powerful things that sustained us during treatment wasn’t a sermon or a book. It was another person looking us in the eyes and saying: I’ve been there. I know how hard this is. You are not alone.
That is still the heartbeat of everything we do at NED Vision.
And now we’re expanding that heartbeat.
Stories That Reach People in the Middle of the Storm
We are opening a space on this platform for the stories that don’t always get told — the ones that happen in waiting rooms, in the middle of the night before a scan, in the quiet moments between treatments when fear is loudest and hope feels furthest away.
If you are currently in treatment, or walking alongside someone who is, we want you to know this space exists for you. Not to give you easy answers or tidy inspiration. But to connect you with real people who have faced what you are facing and found their way through. Because sometimes the most powerful thing in the world isn’t advice. It’s someone saying: me too.
We are actively looking for stories — testimonies from patients, caregivers, survivors — people who are willing to share what that journey looked like and what carried them through. If that’s you, we want to hear from you. Your story might be exactly what someone else needs to read at two in the morning when they don’t know if they can keep going.
To Those Who Have Already Come Through
If you are a survivor — if you know what it is to sit in a chemo chair, to lose your hair, to wonder if your body will ever feel like yours again — and you’ve come out the other side, we have a question for you:
Would you be willing to help someone still in the middle of it?
We are building a community of people who understand this road from the inside. People who don’t need it explained to them. If you’ve been through cancer treatment and you carry that experience as something more than a chapter you’d like to forget — if it shaped you, if it gave you something you feel called to pass on — we would love to talk about how you might partner with us in reaching others who are just beginning that road.
You don’t need a platform or a title. You just need your story and a willingness to share it.
June 2026: Before It’s Too Late
This June we are releasing our second book — Before It’s Too Late: 10 Principles That Will Shape Your Children’s Future.
This one is different from the first. Where our first book walked through the experience of loss and the miracle that doesn’t always look the way we expect, this one looks forward. It’s written for parents — for anyone raising children in a world that is moving faster than any of us were prepared for.
It’s also written from a very specific place: raising children after loss. After Erika passed, I was left with two teenagers who were grieving, a life that needed rebuilding, and no manual for any of it. I made mistakes. I missed things. I had conversations too late that should have happened years earlier. And eventually — imperfectly, one day at a time — I found my footing again.
Before It’s Too Late is the map of that journey. Ten principles about relationship, identity, honor, work, resilience, love, and faith. About what it means to be a present father when presence is the hardest thing to give. About how to raise children who can resist the pressure of this generation without losing who they are. About the kind of legacy that doesn’t require perfection — only intention.
Whether you are parenting through grief, parenting children at different stages who feel like entirely different assignments, or simply feeling like time is moving faster than your ability to be intentional — this book was written for you.
More details on the June release coming soon. Stay close.
What’s Coming
In the months ahead you will see this space grow. More stories. More voices. More honest conversations about what it means to face hard things and not be destroyed by them.
If you want to share your story, partner with our mission, or just stay connected, reach out at helmuthsg@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram at @nedvision7.
We’re not here to be polished. We’re here to be real. Because that’s what people in the middle of the storm actually need.
— Helmuth