Actually I still go to work every day and my second job once a month until my lips are healed. And I still go out in public and go to restaraunts, the movies, etc...just not as much as before...but I do stay home a lot, and try my best to avoid public situations. But it's getting easier after a couple months.
And I actually don't know anything about the Montreal Homegrown Diet, so I have no comments for that...
I plan on putting a FAQ on my page explaining the no water on lips, it's burried somehwere here in the comments as someone asked about it a couple days ago if you want to search for it about why I think it's important to keep them dry.