| Sorry to hear your disconcerting news. I remember agonising over the appearance of micro-aneurysms in an eye scan about 5 years ago. I have managed to keep the HBA1c below 6.5% since then and the problem has not progressed. Hearing about people with even lower HBA1c levels having major problems with retinopathy is indeed mystifying. I am sure that there are other factors involved, like genes and stress. T2s seem to have greater problems at lower HBA1cs possibly because of higher insulin levels.
Anyway, good luck with the new pump and doing what it takes to stabilise/reverse that retinopathy. At the end of the day, we can only do our best and make the most of the cards we have been dealt. And the only way to be happy is to live in the present.
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In my humble opinion  
Type1 since 1977
MDI using Lantus, Protophane, Novorapid and Actrapid
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