Fifteen days ago, Jarrod Clowery was standing with three friends on Boylston Street in front of the Forum Bar watching the Boston Marathon.

Today, Clowery, a 35-year-old carpenter from nearby Stoneham, is in Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, recovering from shrapnel wounds and thermal injuries suffered near the second explosion. He's had multiple surgeries to remove carpentry nails, BB's, pieces of plastic and denim from his jeans embedded in him from the pressure cooker bomb planted near the railing three feet from where he was standing. Doctors estimate Clowery will face several more surgeries to remove the 20 BB's left in him. Yet he considers himself lucky.

"I feel blessed," Clowery said Tuesday during a press conference at the hospital. "My friends are in much worse shape."

Clowery's friends—Marc Fucarile and brothers Paul and J.P. Norden—each lost a limb in the second blast.

The group can be seen standing near 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in one of the photos released by the FBI. But Clowery can't bring himself to look at his alleged attacker.

"I don't even look at the bomber," he said. "I look at me and my friends."

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