How do you deal with life when your kid is always sick and/or waking through the night?

My situation may be different than the situation of many others here, and I am not necessarily looking for advice for my specific case. However, I would love to hear how other people deal with life (going to work, going to school, cleaning, parenting, exercising, cooking etc) when their kid wakes through the night due to illnesses or just kid reasons.My daughter is two and has been ill all of her life. She has been seeing different specialists who have been trying to figure out what's wrong, but are mostly just trying to manage symptoms. Anyway, she often wakes every 2-3 hours, which means I'm often surviving off of a total of maybe five hours of broken up sleep per night. There's no one I can ask for help from.I know plenty of parents lack sleep due to their kids being sick or just getting up in the middle of the night. I can't imagine what I would do if I actually had to go to work and function. How does everyone else manage their own situation without having a meltdown and actually function? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2IMU20X