Synchronous Like Programming in NodeJS / Express with Yield

I'm having a really hard time with Node Asynchronous operation (coming from a PHP background). I know that you can nest callbacks but that can get out of hand really quickly.

Here is a basic example I want to solve synchronously (I know it might be simple to solve asynchronously for this example but I need to know how to do it synchronously for more complicated projects).

This is an express app where i'm trying to count the number of times a coupon has been used:

var express = require('express');
var wrap = require('co-express');

app.post('/grab-valid-coupons', wrap(function* (req, res) {
  var validCoupons = [];

  console.log('grabbing coupons');

  var coupons = yield db.collection('Coupons').find({}).toArray();

  coupons.forEach(wrap(function* (coupon, index) {
    console.log(coupon.code, 'CODE');
    var couponUse = 0;
        couponUse += yield db.collection('Rentals').find({coupon: coupon.code}).count();
        couponUse += yield db.collection('Orders').find({coupon: coupon.code}).count();
    console.log(couponUse);
    if(couponUse < coupon.uses) {
      validCoupons.push(coupon);
    }
  }));

}));

The first yield is working but the part where I try and get the count of everything is causing the entire server to hang. Any ideas?

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