Hello Danielle,
I have been a type 1 diabetic for 30 years this month. And I certainly have expertise as far my own control is concerned, which could scarcely be better.
As far as the reassurance you seek is concerned, I should say I feel some ambivalence. (Don't let your heart drop yet.) I think you - and in due course, your son - have to take control: the reassurance you seek must come from within, not from others.
Please have a look at some of the postings I've made recently: you may note that I have a bee in my bonnet about orthodox control.
My own control comes from two main factors: 1. what I eat, and when I eat it (rye bread is crucial for me); 2. from testing my blood-sugar a lot (not so much the meter-read strips, mostly the simpler visually read testing strips, and never using the nasty spring-loaded gadgets to get the blood-sample). Er, that's it.
As for the future, I wouldn't be at all surprised if things were to change radically in not so many years. But I have no expert knowledge in this regard.
I'd be very happy to respond to any questions you may have.
Michael
Ps. I hope it wasn't an error of judgement to write the above when I was tired - as I was last night. (I didn't even notice that you'd written your first name at the bottom of your posting.) But if I did make such an error, then to a significant extent it would serve to illustrate the reasoning behind the feeling of ambivalence I mentioned.
After all, you don't really know who I am, or who anyone else is who might respond to your request for reassurance. And I believe the fact that you're reduced to making such a desperate plea does not reflect well on the professional help that you're likely to be receiving.
And that brings me to a third, overall main factor I should have mentioned in regard to my diabetic control: simplicity.
Diabetic control is aided by keeping things as simple as possible. And orthodox diabetic control is anything but simple.
I hope you managed to sleep okay.
