Giambi to have more testing done...UPDATE
Giambi went for testing including life-threating diseases. They just don't know what's wrong with him.
NEW YORK -- Jason Giambi has been battling his way back from the intestinal parasite that has plagued him for more than a month, but the first baseman hasn't been pleased with the speed of his progress.
As a result, Giambi spoke with general manager Brian Cashman and team physician Dr. Stuart Hershon, and the three men decided to send him for another series of blood tests to make sure that he is on the right track.
'The baby steps aren't cutting it, so we're going back in and doing more tests,' Giambi said. 'I'm not going anywhere, I'm at a stalemate. I'm not getting better.'
'He's still not feeling as well as he has in the past, so we'll run all the tests,' Cashman said. 'My hope is that they'll all come back negative, make sure there's nothing else going on.'
Giambi did not play on Wednesday, as he was sent for tests before the game against Toronto. No results were available as of Wednesday night, and he was scheduled to visit an infectious disease doctor on Thursday morning for additional testing.
Wednesday, Giambi was tested for a series of maladies, including cancer. Thursday, he will be tested for the parasite that sidelined him for eight games in late-June and early-July.
'They wanted to rule it all out, make sure we're strictly dealing with what I was diagnosed with before,' Giambi said. 'We thought we got rid of [the parasite], but I may still have it. Maybe I need time to get back, we just don't have the answers.'
Giambi's average has dipped down to .224, as he is hitless in his last 18 at-bats, going 0-for-16 on the team's six-game road trip after the All-Star break.
'I've been playing, though I'm not very good,' Giambi said. 'I wake up every day and feel like I'm 100. Hopefully we'll get some answers and go in the right direction.'
Manager Joe Torre said that Giambi was available off the bench on Wednesday, and that he was not sure whether or not he would start on Thursday. With left-hander Ted Lilly starting for Toronto, Torre may give Tony Clark, a switch-hitter, the start at first base.
'We'll see how [Giambi] comes in tomorrow,' Torre said. 'Right now, I'm liable to play Clark against Lilly.'
Giambi missed eight games after being diagnosed with the parasite, and his timing has been off at the plate since he came off the disabled list on June 6 after suffering a sprained right ankle.
'It's a concern. He's having better at-bats. Not the total at-bat, but he's having better swings,' Torre said. 'He's impatient, which I can understand. He's been feeling bad for a long period of time and he wants this thing to go away. It just hasn't totally gone away.'
'It's frustrating,' Giambi said. 'At first it was scary, because I didn't know what was going on. Now, it's just frustrating not to be able to help the club and compete at this level.'
NEW YORK -- Jason Giambi has been battling his way back from the intestinal parasite that has plagued him for more than a month, but the first baseman hasn't been pleased with the speed of his progress.
As a result, Giambi spoke with general manager Brian Cashman and team physician Dr. Stuart Hershon, and the three men decided to send him for another series of blood tests to make sure that he is on the right track.
'The baby steps aren't cutting it, so we're going back in and doing more tests,' Giambi said. 'I'm not going anywhere, I'm at a stalemate. I'm not getting better.'
'He's still not feeling as well as he has in the past, so we'll run all the tests,' Cashman said. 'My hope is that they'll all come back negative, make sure there's nothing else going on.'
Giambi did not play on Wednesday, as he was sent for tests before the game against Toronto. No results were available as of Wednesday night, and he was scheduled to visit an infectious disease doctor on Thursday morning for additional testing.
Wednesday, Giambi was tested for a series of maladies, including cancer. Thursday, he will be tested for the parasite that sidelined him for eight games in late-June and early-July.
'They wanted to rule it all out, make sure we're strictly dealing with what I was diagnosed with before,' Giambi said. 'We thought we got rid of [the parasite], but I may still have it. Maybe I need time to get back, we just don't have the answers.'
Giambi's average has dipped down to .224, as he is hitless in his last 18 at-bats, going 0-for-16 on the team's six-game road trip after the All-Star break.
'I've been playing, though I'm not very good,' Giambi said. 'I wake up every day and feel like I'm 100. Hopefully we'll get some answers and go in the right direction.'
Manager Joe Torre said that Giambi was available off the bench on Wednesday, and that he was not sure whether or not he would start on Thursday. With left-hander Ted Lilly starting for Toronto, Torre may give Tony Clark, a switch-hitter, the start at first base.
'We'll see how [Giambi] comes in tomorrow,' Torre said. 'Right now, I'm liable to play Clark against Lilly.'
Giambi missed eight games after being diagnosed with the parasite, and his timing has been off at the plate since he came off the disabled list on June 6 after suffering a sprained right ankle.
'It's a concern. He's having better at-bats. Not the total at-bat, but he's having better swings,' Torre said. 'He's impatient, which I can understand. He's been feeling bad for a long period of time and he wants this thing to go away. It just hasn't totally gone away.'
'It's frustrating,' Giambi said. 'At first it was scary, because I didn't know what was going on. Now, it's just frustrating not to be able to help the club and compete at this level.'
