I think everything has been said about the pump already, but alot of young people are quite preferential to it for convenience reasons. It's so much easier to just push a button than stick a needle into yourself. Not to mention the micromanaging and timing your life around your injections, the pump is very liberating in this aspect.
If you're really bold, you can look into hematogenous islet cell transplants. The technique used worldwide was actually extensively developed in Edmonton, and it involves taking ground up pancreas from cadavers, injecting it directly into the blood vessels feeding the liver, where upon the islet cells (they make insulin) will seed into the liver. It's not perfect by any means as you'll have to be on immune suppressant drugs thereafter, but when faced with incessant needle poking and the complications of diabetes, its the lesser of two evils.
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